Word: toils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff." The College Tutoring Bureaus claimed that it "has helped hundreds of Harvard students get better grades in their courses. We are now ready to serve you with our Notes, Outlines, and Liberal Translations." University Tutors made a different sort of appeal: "Midnight oil; loathesome toil." Another group advertised that "tutoring ....is not a crutch for the lasy or unintelligent bay, but a constructive educational technique...
...Toil & Trouble...
Strongly as he believes in plastic surgery, Dr. Apton warns that it should not be used in purely trifling cases, or when a patient's depression is actually rooted in something deeper. And with approval he quotes a Canadian colleague: "Scars obtained in honest toil or in battle for a righteous cause are not dishonorable. In fact . . . they should be regarded as a badge of honor...
...illiteracy." It is a fight right here at home, to broaden the American mind, to understand peasant Asia before too late. Eleanor Roosevelt calls this volume "a pictorial concept of the Point Four Program" and its 150 shrewdly, chosen photographs start out on the Point Four theme--the brutal toil and slow starvation of life in China, contrasted with American welfare. The point is clear--that the "billion or more" people of the underdeveloped regions are increasingly susceptible to the misery that comes of knowing they could be better off, if only the right changes could be made...
...Lord Warden. The crisis Britain faced had none of the sharp, agonizing pain of Dunkirk. It was. rather, a dull ache brought on by years of seeming hopelessness and actual attrition. A new Churchillian call for blood, sweat, toil and tears might not now find the same response as it had before, but for the moment at least, there was reassurance in the old familiar, dogged smile beneath the square black hat. There was an encouraging echo of the good old days in the sight of Churchill making the V sign from his big, black Humber, the red, blue & gold...