Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total cost), but its backers are increasing. Last week the Ford Foundation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) announced that in 1951 it gave the Bulletin $25,000. The magazine is careful to print no classified material, has held up an article as long as three years for clearance. Despite this leisurely pace, the editors and contributors think that the world is running out of time in which to work out the international problems of the atom bomb. When the Bulletin began, the cover pictured a clock with the hands at eight minutes to midnight. Now the hands have been moved...
...choosing its freshman class Sarah Lawrence must practice the greatest care. The college seeks girls who can be trusted to work at a steady and brisk pace; without this characteristic the educational system must needs collapse. Complicating admissions is Sarah Lawrence's abnormally high tuition rate of $2,281 needed by the college to meet expenses. There is only the small endowment of $295,000 left by William Lawrence. The interest of $24,000 just pays off the interest on the mortgage and keeps the buildings heated and lighted. The tuition, therefore, must add up to salaries and materials...
...courses because some students are not prepared for the material. On the other hand, some classes can move as fast as the teachers, and the poorer students may have to drop an intensified course. And so, while the college's instructors are sometimes disappointed with an enforced snail's pace, they are often pleasantly surprised...
...Poon so often draws yawns instead of chuckles. It's the old formula. St. Mark's boy meets sub-deb at yacht club party; he tries to give the impression of being a world-wise man about the beach, she--a sophisticate. Girl sets fast pace for a while, but finally breaks down and acts her age. The humor here is pretty grim, and it is about time the Lampoon found itself a new plot...
...think of workers as little more than machines that had to eat. Since the only measure of efficiency was the utmost utilization of time, men were subjected to the intolerable nervous strain of the "speed-up," where assemblies moved always a little faster than men's natural work pace...