Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith College sociology major, Miss Sebring's original ambition was to do social work in Labrador. Instead she has taught school in her home town of Bellefonte, Pa., worked for the Navy Department in Washington, and been a commercial art-production manager in New York City. She got her present position through Smith's placement bureau...
...make the same sing-out in the United Nations Appeal for Children, but their unwieldy, badly organized campaign was a dud. Instead of a hoped-for $60 million it had turned up only a measly $7,000,000. Disheartened at this showing, the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council had voted to end the world drive. Rabaul's reporter went right on pleading the cause of the Yunaited Neisans Sing-out-Sorri. "Orait," he told his Melanesian neighbors, "nau is somting bilong yu. Sapos yu sorri long ol dispela pikinini na yu laik givim liklik moni bilong halivim...
When Napoleon I sneered at England as "a nation of shopkeepers," he was maligning (and at the same time acknowledging the importance of) Britain's middle class, backbone of the nation's social structure since it emerged from feudalism. Nowadays in warbled Britain all classes are having a tough time, but the middle class is having the worst time of all. The moneyed aristocrats (formerly known as the "ruling class") have to dip into their capital, but they are still vastly better off than anybody else. The working classes have had wage raises to meet the cost...
...Labor government, many of whose members are middle-class intellectuals, is acutely aware of the problem. So are Britain's social scientists. In a report published recently, the Nuffield Foundation (endowed by upper middle-class Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield) disclosed a grant of $80,000 to the London School of Economics for an exhaustive five-year study of the middle-class problem. Captained by Caradog Jones, M.A., a retired middle-class professor whose last big job was a survey of the depressed Merseyside area (around Liverpool), the researchers will study not only present problems but "how people rise...
After dispensing with the Communists, Dewey took up social security and aid to veterans. He scolded the New Deal, his eyes bugging archly, for not passing an adequate social security law. In full and vibrant tones he said that above all we must have "friendly" veterans' hospitals...