Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person trained in a few practical skills is not an educated person, nor is he necessarily "life-adjusted." Only through a solid acquaintance with the humanities can we expect to retain a true perspective of life and of the world in which we live. To reject the so-called "impractical" subjects in our high schools is to deny our cultural heritage. . . . It is tantamount to admitting . . . that learning, as far as we in America are concerned, is nothing more than a quick method for discovering which button to push and when to push...
Shaw, never a systematic nor an original thinker, preached socialism-but a brand so condescending and aristocratic that both Hyde Park revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the conditions of England's workers were followed by sneering gibes at their stupidity (the "Yahoos," he called them). He attacked capitalism, but portrayed capitalists so sympathetically that the readers of his plays found the attack indistinguishable from a defense...
...willing to yield another inch. House Republicans brought out a bill including part of what Harry Truman wanted (export and transportation controls) but stressing the Republican program for voluntary action. When the G.O.P. tried to ram it through with a two-thirds voting procedure barring all amendments, a solid Democratic opposition killed the bill-and the probability of any anti-inflation action before Christmas...
...Solid Friendship. Arab leaders, united in opposition to Zionism, were not uniformly zealous in planning war. Iraq, Syria and Lebanon were for all-out war by League members and economic pressure on backers of the U.N. partition plan. But Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan advised caution. In his desert fortress-capital at Riyadh, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia said that reports that he would cancel U.S. oil concessions were "untrue and irresponsible." "Our friendship with the U.S. is solid and well established,'' said Ibn Saud. "We believe [the U.S.] made a mistake in the U.N. Palestine...
...assigned reading depend for their value upon the capability of the individual instructor who conducts the meeting or assigns the reading. They can be and are valuable; but they are more devoted to penetration into the subject matter of a given course than to moulding various courses into a solid unit. Even within the limit of one course, they usually are designed to provide more facts rather than to correlate those already learned...