Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hooper Bay: I wrote you about Esther Smith's female trouble. She says a wound is still giving her trouble. Now she's pregnant. Can you recommend anything? Over...
Ford is up to 6 in. longer, sports 29% more windshield area and a superenamel finish that needs no waxing for the car's lifetime. It has single taillights, parking lights in the front bumper. Ford will recommend regular instead of premium gas (saving: up to $1 a tankful). Beamed Sales Manager Marvin Cahn of Manhattan's Ralph Morgan Motors: "The new Fords won't be displayed till Oct. 17, but we have firm orders for 400-double last year...
...majored in history and after graduation decided a year or two at Exeter would best test his desires to teach. "I strongly recommend this idea of a year or two teaching at a prep school before going to a college or university. For one thing it's economical: I saved enough in two years to finance my first year at grad school and buy a car, too. And best of all, you discover more of the true joy of teaching than you will at any college...
...yarn of life in an oldtime square-rigger. On his first voyage, Bisset was seasick. The mate gave him an old-fashioned cure: a pannikin of sea water poured down his protesting gullet. Though he has never been seasick since, Commodore Bisset notes ruefully: "I have always hesitated to recommend this old-fashioned remedy to passengers in luxury liners." Another old remedy was devised for Bisset's dysentery. The captain's remedies were numbered, and No. 15 was for dysentery. But the captain ran out of it. So he gave the green-faced Jimmy an arithmetically compounded dollop...
...without neglecting the training of normal and subnormal students-must get tougher courses in their subjects of special ability. The brightest of these, some 2% of the students, should be steered into a broadened program of early college entrance or college-level courses in high school, the authors recommend. A corollary to the suggestions for bright students: Americans must recognize that not every child should go to college...