Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas for the Great White Goof [the Senate Office Building fiasco, May 25]. We Britons are acutely aware of our awful blunders of inefficiency, such as the Preston Motorway and British Railways, and I have for quite a time used examples of American efficiency to great effect in grammar-school debates. This powerful and humiliating weapon is now useless. You Americans are fatheads...
...Colossal Effrontery." Son of a Virginia shoe jobber, Lewis Strauss (pronounced straws) was born in Charleston, W. Va., raised in Richmond. Chosen valedictorian of his high school class, he combined his two boyhood passions, physics and religion, in an address entitled "Science and Theology: A Reconciliation." "Fortunately," says Strauss, "this colossal effrontery has not survived...
...such a reaction did occur, when did significant doubt start? 33 before secondary school; 127 during secondary school; 31 in your freshman year; 13 later in college...
...what sort of secondary school did you receive most of your education? 154 public; 73 private boarding; 69 private day; 3 parochial school...
...many years did you attend Sunday School? 48 none; 122 1-5; 100 5-10; 33 more...