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...Calculus at best is difficult, I recollect ... Do you insist that it be made impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...down between the Press and the Bar Association investigations of his conduct on and off the bench, the harassed judge made one more banner headline: BREWER QUITS BENCH AND BAR, WILL RESTORE $6,300 SHORTAGES. Reluctantly, Brewer admitted that he was unable after many years to "present records or recollect facts," concluded, "Clearly, I have been careless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Breach of Trust | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...confusion and distort thought. Who can say what it means to the people who are so zealous for their children's attaining a college diploma, or to those to whom Education of the People is society's cure-all? Vocational training, perhaps, or the ability to quote Homer or recollect statistics from so-and-so's history of the U.S. manganese industry, or "soundness" on current problems, or contacts and prestige...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Spirit of Education | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

...When it comes to security, I recollect that in the early Twenties we were mad for it. Furthermore, we were certain we would get it-a delusion to which the young today are too perceptive to attach themselves . . . Young people want answers to their questions about the meaning and the destiny of man . . . The pathos of their situation is that in their quest for faith they have no one to turn to but their elders, who have gone so long themselves without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Generation in Transition | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...well with Mr. Nathan and they wanted in on it. Also, there was one piece of real estate ne had called the office about and I called him and admonished him he could not be a broker for that real estate. Those were the only calls I recollect, and those were the subjects of the calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Long Distance | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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