Word: probe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Probe Yourself. At Gordonstoun last week, on the bleakly beautiful Morayshire coast of Scotland, 300 youngsters were busy manning coastguard lookouts, spotting forest fires, working at the village smithy, and striving mightily to win badges for moral and physical fitness. Headmaster Hahn is sure that his schools have found William James's "moral equivalent of war." Says Hahn: "One of the mysterious currents making for war ... is the longing of the young to probe their reserves of ... endurance, daring and resourcefulness." One who probed himself: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, onetime Guardian (head boy) of Gordonstoun. At the Hahn...
...entire University, the Committee was formed in response to pressure last summer by the Law School Record to gather evidence and report on "whether the Department provides the best possible service for the fee charged." For a while it looked as if something revealing might soon come of the probe, but later the investigation slipped quietly into the background, and as yet no report has been submitted...
...making progress. His American Institute of Public Opinion (the grandiloquent official title of the Gallup Poll), distributed by Partner Anderson's Publishers Syndicate, has been expanded into a network covering eleven foreign nations.** Other Gallup researchers study the effect of advertisements in a dummy magazine called Impact, probe the tastes of Book-of-the-Month Club readers, help select titles for Bantam Books...
...Alan Gregg of the Rockefeller Foundation stuck a probe into the powerful specialty boards,* which certify doctors as specialists in the 15 recognized fields. The inbred, backward-looking boards, he said, give examinations that try to find out whether a candidate knows what the examiners know, not what the candidate himself knows; they stifle medical progress by "withholding approval of the new by insistent emphasis on expert knowledge of the old"; they become "partners of static and reactionary, albeit powerful and respectable, inertia or ignorance." Dr. Gregg's suggestion: pick specialists by their competence in practice...
...could herself outwork and outlecture most social workers of the era-felt feebly feminine and small, "a mere dilettante." After hours of involved research into feudal economy, say, Beatrice would be ashamed to find that her head ached and she had to lie down-while Sidney indefatigably continued to probe the intricacies of mortgage and land-tenure. But he was wonderfully sympathic and never impatient...