Word: outwardly
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Within these limitations, slum teachers score remarkable successes. They do manage to bring some order to otherwise chaotic lives. Says Conant: "The outward manifestations of discipline, order and formal dress are found to a greater degree in the well-run slum schools of a city than in the wealthier sections of the same city." Yet in most big-city slums, more than half of the students drop out of school when they reach the legal age, usually 16. Two-thirds of the dropouts fail to find jobs; even among those who get high school diplomas, roughly half cannot get work...
Blast Wave, also referred to as the shock wave, is the wall of pressure generated by a nuclear explosion. It speeds outward from the explosion point at 2,000 m.p.h., slows as the distance increases...
German Economist Max Weber broached the theory in 1905 with The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Calvinism and the Protestant sects, he maintained, lacking the absolution of sins provided by the Roman Catholic Church, depend upon outward and visible signs of salvation: diligence, sobriety and God's reward-success. Thrift, he argued, was also a peculiarly Protestant virtue, and the combination of these qualities naturally produced capital. Weber quoted Methodism's founder, John Wesley: "Religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches.'' British Economist Richard H. Tawney further...
Female Oedipus. Since little is known of the poetess Sappho, Durrell follows history as far as it goes, then dives outward into the freedom of his own imagination. In his play, set on the island of Lesbos in 650 B.C., she is the wife of Kreon, a rich landowner who wishes to become the most powerful economic force in the Aeolian world by recovering a set of deeds from his villa in the old city of Eresos, which has disappeared beneath the sea in an earthquake. He wants to use his power to finance the dictatorship and earth-conquering ambitions...
Standing under an olive tree in Sicily in September 1943, an unsmiling American general accepted Italy's unconditional surrender. Just 20 months later, the same general, still stiff and frozen faced, met in a French schoolhouse with the emissaries of defeated Nazi Germany, and without outward emotion scribbled his name on the document that ended World War II in Europe. Those two rustic but historic occasions marked the climax of a brilliant military career for Walter Bedell Smith. In the postwar years, he served his nation notably as a diplomat and as chief of intelligence...