Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose shuns name authors ("children don't care who wrote the story"), never mixes fantasy with fact ("some authors have brownies explain about stalagmites; they think it helps the children, but it confuses them''). She is careful not to tell her readers what to think ("we tell them how to make some gadget, but we never say it's fun"). Above all, she never slants her pieces to please parents or teachers because "there are more kids [than teachers]; that's our whole policy...
...wild, uncontrolled and uncritical expansion" in U.S. universities. Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld gave Flexner $5,000,000 to start a place where a few scholars could just "sit and think." Scientist Vannevar Bush was skeptical: "Well, I can see how you could tell whether they were sitting...
...likes to tell about a Bible study group in Germany that had begun with Genesis and doggedly plowed clear through to Ezekiel. Asked an impressed visitor: "Don't you find Ezekiel terribly difficult?" Replied one Bible student: "Yes-but what we don't understand, we explain to each other...
...best quarterly net in its history; it was up 121% to $22.5 million. U.S. Steel, which made news chiefly by not declaring an extra dividend (which Wall Street had hoped for), trailed with a rise of 20% to $34.5 million. But Big Steel's net did not tell the whole story. Because its depreciation reserves "were not sufficient to cover the cost" of replacing property at current high prices, the company had put aside an extra $13.5 million. Without this set aside, the profit increase over 1947's third quarter would have been closer to 70%. Similarly, high...
...with the arms--you could tell them because they were black with orange stripes--got their just deserts in the third period. They ran every play from scrimmage, except one, in the first 14 minutes of the quarter...