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...take three or four hours each, or less. Accordingly, your statement about "five hour wonders" has no application here, Indeed, a man who needs five hours on one of these papers to achieve a B is scarcely to be regarded as a bull artist, but as a conscientious plodder. Five hours of solid work would also go a long way toward completion of one of the 1,000 word papers in certain other courses which require no research. Longer papers would take proportionately longer. Some of the longest might require most of a student's time for a number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEN. ED. LEADERS REPLY | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

...careers-you sigh nostalgically that today's generation has no adventurous, imaginative lads ready to seek the weird heights, far away from the stereotyped big-company jobs. Well, your . . . generation has substituted oafish earnestness and the plodder's mentality for ability, brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...only a plodder of average talents and plain common sense," the missionary once said of himself. "If I have been remarkable for anything, it has been for perseverance." Last week in Yokohama, a monument was raised to the remarkable plodder who was one of the first to introduce Japan to Western and Christian ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kunshi | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...soldier Dutra, the honest plodder who had faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Report to the Nation | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...confidently predicts that Sweden's Lennart Strand will be the first to run a four-minute mile. With the Wanamaker Mile behind him, Hansenne expects to give MacMitchell some uncomfortable moments in this week's Boston Hunter Mile. Experts agree that he is the most promising plodder to invade the U.S. in years, and that on an outdoor track he has Olympic class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Feather-Footed Frenchman | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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