Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warned Dr. Constance M. McCullough of Western Reserve: "The teacher shortage is not the malady; it is a symptom. . . . The American people are trying to buy an expensive product cheap. . . ." The National Education Association estimated that it would cost the U.S. $420 million a year to raise all teachers' salaries to what it regards as a desirable minimum...
With it as its end product, Santayana's six decades of philosophizing may remind Christians of those tedious scientific experiments which in the end prove something that everybody had always known...
...closest thing to Hell on earth last week was in the midst of the sea-a tortured little patch of dismal grey rock some 235 miles south of Tokyo. For at least four weeks-since it was first sighted by the crew of a British destroyer-the islet, a product of submarine volcanic eruption, has been boiling the sea into clouds of sulphurous steam, belching great blasts of smoke and roiling the muddy bottom for miles around...
...raise might be absorbed along the line. But where and how? The price raise may make it harder than ever for manufacturers to break the bottlenecks -e.g., in castings-which have plagued industry as viciously in peace as in war. For lack of one small part, many a product has remained in the factory, instead of moving into the stores...
...steeples of a Connecticut town, Radio City, the Blue-grass country, the Senate in session, Manhattan's garment district. The magazine was written and translated in the U.S., sent to Moscow for checking - and slight censorship - by the Foreign Office, returned for printing, shipped back as a finished product...