Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look at our apple trees and say, 'My, my, just look at all those dollars hanging on the trees.' They think we just sat on the porch and watched them grow. They don't know that a lot of good hard work has gone into that orchard...
...write well here," he mused. "I used to write a lot too in Siberia." I asked him if he wrote in longhand. Tito nodded. "You ought to try a dictating machine," I suggested. "You fasten a microphone to your shirt. You can then pace the room, and when you think of those wonderful sentences you simply say them aloud." Tito changed the subject. But later his doctor grabbed me when we were alone. "What is it called, this new machine you fasten to your shirt?" he asked. "The Marshal wants...
...storm and his wife about to give birth, Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, 41, urgently called two doctors to his Indiana home. They arrived to find that Leahy, working by candlelight, had already safely delivered the Leahy's sixth child, fourth boy ("a fullback, I think"). The coach's critique: "If you think a football game is exciting, you should have been at our house last night...
...came as no surprise that most Americans (83%) want their sons to go to college, and that 69% want to send their daughters too. Professional men and executives are the most anxious to have their sons win their degrees (only one out of 100 think they should "do something else" besides going to college). But more than two-thirds of the farmers and wage earners in the survey also want a college education for their sons. A smaller majority (56%) think it would be a pretty good idea for the U.S. Government to start passing out federal scholarships to send...
What should a student get out of college? Most people think that the liberal arts may be fine for their daughters, but that a son's education should be weighted toward training him "for a particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...