Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solve economic, social and political problems.' " In his home state of Illinois, said Bestor angrily, a recent report suggests "that the schools can serve the nation in its present hour of peril by asking its students to 'make studies of how the last war affected the dating pattern of our culture.' " This type of unbridled experiment ought not to be allowed in U.S. schools, said Bestor. As educators, "we are under the most solemn obligation to proceed with care . . . The caution and circumspection characteristic of medical research is the only proper model, for we are dealing with...
When General Motors pegged its wages to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumers' price index, it set a pattern for thousands of other union contracts. As the index rose, the unions got automatic pay increases. Last week it appeared that this pattern might soon change. In the hope of improving the index's accuracy, BLS announced a radical change in the way it is compiled. To reflect changed standards of living, BLS will add 75 new items (including candy, ice cream, baby foods, used cars). It will also check prices H twelve additional cities, raising tne total...
Presumably, these losses would be a sacrifice to the miniscule number who study while others entertain. Presumably, too, they would be a sacrifice to the principle of Social Pattern, dear to the hearts of prep-school administrators. In any case, this work represents as logical a bit of reasoning as belief in Santa Claus...
...into near little sections each reserved for a certain type of activity is at best a feeble rationalization of the new parietal rules, and at worst an insincere one. Harvard men lead notoriously irregular lives, and it is not for the Dean's Office to work them into a pattern by which at a given hour all will troop off together to the Blockhouse or Lamont. Harvard men play hockey at 7:30 in the morning and squash at 10 at night. They study until 3 in the morning and they sleep until noon. Some of them...
...temperature was three degrees above average last week, the Blue Hill Observatory announced last night. This followed the pattern set during the past three months, when the weather was unusually warm in comparison with past falls...