Word: prods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your editorial entitled "Low Grade System" seemed to me an entirely wrong approach of the problem. It represented an attempt to patch up a system which badly requires complete overhauling. As an external prod to effort, grades offer a cheap substitute (and an ineffective one at that) for the only incentive worth having: the student's interest and eagerness to learn. The student whose prime motive for studying is the attainment of good grades is not worth the College's time, anyhow...
Ease a Headache. Lower retail prices and high consumption might ease some of the headaches of New England's fish industry. Sixteen Gloucester fish firms have already embarked on an advertising program to prod housewives in ten cities in the Midwest, South and East to eat more rosefish (other names: red perch, ocean perch, redfish...
...Young had only begun to prod. This week, in the midst of his maneuvering to take over control of the giant New York Central, Young launched his new Federation for Railway Progress. With onetime Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as chairman of an advisory committee representing the public, the Federation will be open to security holders, labor, shippers and anybody else interested in "revitalizing the industry...
...Prod to Provoke. For a photographer, Karsh works fast; he usually needs no more than 20 minutes to get all the shots he wants. He uses a $100 Ansco camera, an 8 x 10 with a $265 lens and a long cable release. His trick is to walk around the room talking to his subjects till they are wheedled, or needled, into the expression he wants. Then he snaps the shot. When irascible Harold Ickes persisted in looking blandly benevolent, a reference to his pet hate of the moment, the Canol project prodded him into looking natural...
...Alexander Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Alvanley Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. * Sample quote of 1946: "The American eagle sits on his perch, a large strong bird with formidable beak and claws. There he sits, motionless, and Mr. Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle. I venture to give...