Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rack-till-they-break philosophy, still lingers on. Many states have eliminated capital punishment entirely; in Maine, Michigan, Rhode Island, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin the heaviest penalty is life imprisonment. But many have not. Some state statute books provide for the death penalty in crimes ranging from train wrecking to rape and arson. Those who defend these laws base their arguments on three basic points; retribution; protection of society; and deterrence of future crimes through example...
Emory L. Chafee, Rumford Professor of Physics, the man who did most to train thousands of servicemen in the field of electronics during World War II, is also among those retiring...
...also suggested that the President appoint a commission to study the impact of government projects on the responsibility of universities to "advance fundamental knowledge and train tomorrow's scholars and scientists...
Said Dodds: "No school for normal youth can escape the duty to develop the intellectual approach to life and to train the mind as a means for personal enjoyment and as a solver of problems. Unfortunately, when we come to view America's vast system of tax-supported secondary education, we are bound, I fear, to admit that, with all it has to its credit, it is not fulfilling its duty to the mind ... Its greatest weakness has come from playing down academic scholarship ... in favor of universality at a level of intellectual aptitudes adjusted to a common denominator...
...whole new management team was assembled, Ford demonstrated that he had inherited his grandfather's capacities for radical innovations. He ordered tests to pick out promising young men on the production line to send them to school for training as managers. In spite of the fact that the company was overloaded with older workers, the corporation took on an $8,000,000 burden to set up pensions. But it reaped dividends in efficiency. Ford became a young man's company: the average age of its 35,000 salaried men is only 38, and that of its 130.000 production...