Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Classics. In the last 100 years, the 15,000 fatherless boys who have gone through the "Hum" (campus corruption for home) have turned out to be everything from mechanics to insurance-company presidents. Girard has a "double curriculum." Every "newbie" (new boy) must try ten different trades, and then pick his favorite. Girard also teaches the standard grammar and high-school subjects, except for Latin and Greek, which Stephen Girard considered a waste of time...
Mind v. Brain. Schizophrenia (split personality) is probably the commonest form of insanity. Where does it start, in the mind or in the brain? Most psychiatrists think schizophrenia is faulty functioning of the mind. On the basis of postmortem studies of ten patients with schizophrenia, Philadelphia's Nathaniel W. Winkelman came to the contrary conclusion that the disease should be considered organic: there are, he reported, changes in the brain that can be seen under the microscope. He found, for instance, a decrease in ganglion cells, and an unusual amount of fat in the cells. Most of his subjects...
...well-dressed gallerygoers at his show, attracted more attention than his paintings. Roaring with good will, he played the lion for an hour, then ducked out to his favorite den, a pub. The time he has spent in pubs adds up to several of his three-score-&-ten years. For reasons of health John now ' alternates liquor in London with goat's milk in the country, but he much prefers the city drink...
...print his 'open letter' to Premier Stalin. Mr. Wallace said: 'Almost painfully, I must give credit to the New York Times as the only newspaper that printed my letter in full. You can find almost anything in the New York Times if you look between pages ten and 17.' " Added the Times: the story "started, on Page i and was continued, with the text of the letter, on Page...
Last week the French press was in another desperate fight for survival. In two months, one in seven of the country's 164 dailies had folded, including four out of ten Communist mouthpieces. In Paris, the Socialist Party's Le Populaire, its circulation down from 350,000 to 93,000, was publicly begging for funds. The M.R.P.'s L'Aube (down from 200,000 to 80,000) was living from week to week on party handouts. Said a panicky government official: "A general crackup ... is feared. We don't know how many papers will close...