Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the seniors said they were satisfied with their major subject, although 13% of the men and 17% of the women wished, now that it was all over, that they had chosen a different one. The kind of education they had had was split roughly 60-40 between a generalized education and specific training. Asked what they would desire if they could do it all over again, half said they would follow the same educational line, the rest leaned toward more specific training...
...carpet arranged in order of quality from coir [coconut fiber] matting to the finest Kirman rugs; the marmalade-downwards incidence was found to vary directly with the quality of the carpet . . . Gonk's Hypothesis, formulated by our own Professor Gonk, of the Cambridge Trichological Institute, states that a subject who has rubbed a wet shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously he shakes the brush, prevent water from dribbling down his forearm and wetting his sleeve once he starts shaving. Gonk has also, of course, carried out some brilliant research on collar...
...thinks the prices too high, it can cut them to its estimate of "fair and just compensation." Even more important than this contest of prices and production, the President can order the steel industry to allocate unlimited amounts of its output to defense plants. Any company that balks is subject to Government seizure. Any individual who fails to comply faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $50,000 fine...
...subject and size, the house organs range from Sulka Shirt Tales, which goes chiefly to several hundred dapper New Yorkers, to the digest-sized Ford Times, which plugs travel-in Ford cars-to 1,500,000 Ford fans. In approach, they range from out & out product brochures to International Business Machines' ad-less Think, which runs weighty pieces by such guest byliners as Secretary of State George Marshall. There are some big chains in the house-organ field: Du Pont has 40-odd periodicals, the Borden Co. 35, International Harvester...
This new one-volume history of the American Revolution is as coldly dispassionate about a passionate subject as an indictment for murder. It is doubtful whether any other study of the revolution is at once so compact and so inclusive, or succeeds so well in avoiding the myths of the professional flag-wavers or the narrow materialism of the muckrakers...