Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supreme significance of the individual may be sorely tried before those who are entering as Freshmen graduate from this College," he continued. "At best, a time of emergency is not a time for the flowering of individuality, for tensions are high and conformity rather than diversity is at a premium." He pointed out, however, we must guard against the danger of totalitarian methods sweeping aside our democratic institutions in time of crisis...
Said Wendell Willkie, as he left the White House: "That's a proposal out of the dark ages. It would set the cause of emancipation of women back 500 years." Wrote scholarly Columnist Arthur Krock in the New York Times: "It puts a premium on divorce, celibacy, a lower birth rate and a mercenary attitude toward the estate of marriage." Wrote 76-year-old Arthur Graham Glasgow, noted gas technologist, in a letter to the New York Times: "Such discrimination is immoral as well as unmoral, for it allots a premium ... to living...
...these men such a powerful hold upon all subsequent thought? Says Author Barzun: they "made final the separation between man and his soul." "Man was no longer a cherished creature of the gods. . . . Things were the only reality-indestructible matter in motion." Result of this apotheosis of matter: "A premium was put on fact, brute force, valueless existence and bare survival...
West Coast Okies suddenly found their services at a premium. Two berry processing companies handed out gasoline credit cards in San Francisco, thus offered free gas and oil for the trip to Oregon. Into Oregon's migratory camps at night slipped Idaho labor contractors trying to lure workers across the State line...
...British universities today, it seems to be recognized that this war is a technical war in which the physicists and engineers in particular are at a high premium. This premise colors all the discussions of academic problems. It is argued by classicists and scientists alike that the universities must be kept running to train as rapidly as possible the young scientists who are so desperately needed to assist the fighting forces...