Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fine Art of Soap. Joe Harrell doesn't think he can change all that, but at least he can do something for the kids that reach Edison. Joe sees the job at Edison (and at the Benito Juarez school, of which he is also principal) as more than just teaching boys & girls to read & write. One of the extracurricular activities Joe started as soon as he realized that the cost of soap was largely responsible for the grimy looks of his students: practical soapmaking, out of lye and cooking fat brought from home...
...practicing British midwives who have had no such training. A bill to require midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than a towel and tell them to pull...
...Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...
...management must have cleared an easy 50 grand, but you'd never know it from looking at the purses they put up. Take my race. The winner got $850. I've done better time but you think I'm going to break my neck for a lousy 850 bucks...
...only the most complete purist would not have been pretty deeply affected by the whole thing. It is quite a privilege to be able to hear the Mass at all no matter what the interpretation. In fact, I think those who managed to get seats were among the luckiest people in the world yesterday. And if their standing ovation for all participants is any indication, they thought...