Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In electing its new headmaster, Groton took a big step, for this famed, exclusive preparatory school has had the same headmaster for all its 55 years. Dr. Peabody, who will serve another year before Crocker takes over, knows that Groton's future is in the hands of no stranger...
But it was not the unhappy marriages or love affairs of adult life that were mainly responsible for neuroses. For the same experiences that normal .persons took in their stride were sufficient to bowl neurotics over. The foundations of neuroses, Freud discovered, were laid in the sex experiences of early...
"Wages will never settle the labor problem because the saturation point will never be reached," wrote Arthur Vandenberg and his colleagues. "Wage increases create the same result as the serving of red meat to animals at the zoo-satisfaction for the moment, a more ravenous appetite later."
"Blend the wage scale with a profit-sharing differential and the same human being who was previously concentrating his attention on wages will discard the combative spirit-his self-preservation instinct previously centred only on a flat wage scale will cease."
The biggest turnover in Richman employes is due to retirements. A woman cook in the cafeteria retired recently, after 13 years of service, with $30,000 worth of Richman stock, a savings account of $3,500. About the same time a tailor with a larger block of stock, a house...