Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gluecks' next step was to examine the records of boys who reformed, pick out their prevailing characteristics. They found that boys with more intelligence and a more favorable home environment were most likely to straighten out. Eventually they found that the most reliable signs were: 1) parents' nationality and religion, 2) the age at which a boy committed his first offense. Most likely to reform, say the Gluecks, is a boy who did not misbehave until he was 13 and is the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland or Lithuania. Least likely is a boy who misbehaved...
...year-old Chairman Woolley had given way to a tightlipped, hardboiled, 58-year-old chairman, Henry M. Reed, who was given the green light by Radiator's bankers (J. P. Morgan & Co.), told to straighten out its rambling financial structure. One of Reed's first moves was to purge $8,730,703 of German and Italian "assets" from the company's consolidated accounts...
...much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they want to know how their parents acted at about the same age, they may never get a better chance to find...
...backtrack in a hurry. Appalled by the prospect of alumni disappointed at finding nary a ripple left in the indoor pool, they have again changed the time, and pushed the swimming meet back on top of the hockey game. But still it's not too late to straighten things out. The majority of those who intend to come, the great block of undergraduate sports followers and outsiders really interested in the teams, can be reached through adequate publicity, and given a chance to see both of these events. It is reassuring to know that the H. A. A. is planning...
...Government of London could do little overtly to straighten out the difficulties of these self-governing units. But there was also increasing trouble in a corner of the Empire which does not run itself, and here London could and did decidedly act. At New Delhi, lavish capital of India, a little skinny man dressed in homespun cotton garments, with a shawl drooped around his shoulders, passed through the imposing gates of The Viceroy's House...