Word: shortcutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tone. Then, examining it closer, one finds a great deal of fiddling around and many squiggles which are without meaning. If these comprise a kind of patina they may or may not succeed. Unfortunately, in many of Shimizu's things they are more than patina. They constitute a shortcut, however unconscious, a device which meets a multitude of problems without solving them...
...prosperity-with all the rest of the world sinking lower and lower in its standards of living. There are many ways in which we can use our influence to make certain that other peoples recognize the virtues of a free, competitive capitalistic system rather than to take the shortcut-the spurious and false road that is offered them by the Communistic ideology . . . And so we must carry not only a material message to the world of what kind of enterprise we have-the kind of system-can do for a people. We must carry those moral values, spiritual values...
...Transition Not a Shortcut...
...useful modification of rather than an illusory shortcut to education, the Advanced Standing program will try to smooth the transition between high school and college for those gifted students who are retarded by formal requirements...
Although the new shortcut made the headlines, Canadian and U.S. scientists aboard the expedition had a more important mission: taking soundings and recording data on the Arctic seas. With accurate charts, an atomic submarine, such as the U.S.S. Nautilus (TIME, Jan. 11), could cruise from the Atlantic to the Pacific under the Arctic icepack, virtually invulnerable to search and counterattack...