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Pastoral Scenes. British businessmen generally disapproved of Hailsham's waspish outburst, with its anti-American overtones. Hailsham thought that scientists should "still owe some responsibility" to the country where they were born and educated, rather than "make up for the deficiencies of the American high schools-to which, incidentally, they condemn their own offspring if they stay away too long." Businessmen are beginning to realize that U.S. recruiting is only part of the problem, and that there is a need for British business to do more about facilities, opportunities and pay. So far, however, the most spectacular program...
...pious atrocity infuriated Voltaire, and he sent off a blizzard of letters demanding details. "Ah, monsters," he cried in a letter to the judges of Calas, "you owe it to men to account for the blood of men." In a fury compounded of old age, pessimism, anticlericalism and a passion for justice, he summoned the attention of all Europe to the case, until at last Louis XV reversed the verdict against the Calases and, in so doing, crippled with shame the official persecution of the Huguenots...
...winning the marital match. "Don't serve your husband a drink in a jelly glass," she told a group of conventioning beauticians in Detroit, "or serve his meals while you've got curlers on. He's the one who cares the most about you, and you owe it to him to look your very best." Then, wiggling her new light brown wiglet, Mrs. Romney let the ladies in on another secret: "It's the first time I haven't been...
...formidable problems of health still challenging us at every turn. Another of its purposes is to strengthen Harvard's already unrivalled capacity to produce teachers of medicine. A quarter of all the full-time teachers of medicine of professorial rank in all the nation's 87 schools of medicine owe at least a part of their training to Harvard or to one or another of Harvard's affiliated hospitals. Twenty-three of these schools' dean are Harvard-trained. Some 2,000 of the nearly 6,000 living graduates of the Harvard Medical School are known to be involved to some...
...Hour. The boarders, core of the school, are down for tuition of $738 a year. But even if they have the money, which most do not, they are not permitted to pay in full. Each student must agree when he enters to owe the school at least $81 and up to $300 a year -and then pay it off by hard work at varying rates of up to 35? an hour. The rates depend on quality of work, says Anderson, who uses such gauges as "being punctual on a job, following instructions without grumbling, and care of tools." Sloppy work...