Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road from Homer Noble Farm, the article and picture served as a sort of reunion with both that lovely mountain-girt country and the remarkable Robert Frost . . . My friends and fellow students of other years at Bread Loaf will long remember his puckish wit and astounding erudition on any subject. An afternoon talk with Frost in his tiny cabin set up the hillside from the Noble house, his shepherd dog Gillie lying by the fire and appearing to listen as his master talks of a variety of subjects including baseball, politics, education, 14th Century anonymous carols, farming, and the metaphysical...
When TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on the fight against cancer, they were confronted with any number of first-rate men and institutions from which to select their cover subject. Manhattan's Memorial Hospital was chosen because it offered a complete cross-section of modern cancer research, and its director, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, was a leading symbol of this effort...
Presumably, too, the Administration was dead set against another round of wage increases (see BUSINESS), but it just couldn't bring itself to say so. In trying to write around this painful subject, the President's economic advisers composed some masterful doubletalk. Sample: At the present time both employers and workers should strive to work out adjustments which will help to stimulate activity, bearing in mind the need both for holding business costs down and for maintaining consumer purchasing power at high levels...
...Round Men. "Such a course . . . would give the power of concentrated thought. This has a special relevance at the present time, when an increasing number . . . are subjected to conditions which render the practice of concentrated thought impossible . . . Secondly, it would have the effect, historically claimed for it, of turning out 'round men' ... It would so polish and refine their minds that they could 'get up' any subject of which they might subsequently stand in need, while the possession of a perspective and a sense of relative values would fit them for high administrative posts...
...American Reform Rabbinate"; in Boston. Longtime (1888-1938) rabbi of Cincinnati's Bene Israel Congregation, Dr. Philipson helped draw up the famed "Pittsburgh Platform" (1885), which set forth the principles of Reform Judaism, in 1907 wrote The Reform Movement in Judaism, still a standard work on the subject...