Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continue to have an essentially free and classless this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks to life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...
President Conant believes that "we must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety for educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of educational disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above another...
...Mayo, 73, crusading authoress whose best-selling Mother India in 1927 caused an international stir; after long sickness; in Bedford Hills, N. Y. Said Mahatma Gandhi as Miss Mayo's indictment of Hindu caste and culture was being burned throughout India: "A book. . . every Indian can read with . . . profit. We may repudiate the charge. . . but . . . not the substance...
...from Mine Run, Va., he made his first killing in 1935, when in the course of three weeks he won 150 pounds of chicken feed. Encouraged, he went into contesting seriously, soon collected a booty of bicycles, roller skates, shaving brushes, Indian suits, automobiles, cash. Described as a non-profit association, National Contesters charges members $1 a year in dues, keeps them posted about what goes on in the contest world...
...hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records were launched in Washington, with more of the same kind of hullabaloo, including a dinner at which Mr. Erskine and other bigwigs spoke...