Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only field for the Yankee dollar. Last year, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford* turned out automotive products worth $183 million, 95% of Canadian production. Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodyear and Goodrich did 60% of the rubber business, and other well-known U.S. manufacturing names were familiar throughout the provinces. In the latest DBS report Coca-Cola has 22 bottling works, Borden Co. 23 dairy processing plants, Swift 26 packinghouses...
...Look into my eyes," Princess Margaret ordered a startled dancing partner not long ago. "I am looking into them, Ma'am," he stammered. "Well," said Margaret, "you're looking into the most beautiful eyes in England. The Duchess of Kent has the most beautiful nose. The Duchess of Windsor has the most beautiful chin. And I have the most beautiful eyes. Surely," she added, with an impish gleam in her eye, as her flustered partner groped for a suitable answer, "you believe what you read in the papers...
...many degrees his teachers had (of 105, only 21 have Ph.D.s) or how many A's his students got. He believed that students should "major in the subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought...
...Cardinal, student weekly, archly wondered whether teachers might begin grading students Win, Place, Show, and Also Ran. But President John W. Taylor had no qualms. Said he: "Personally, I am for anything short of robbing a bank to help the university." If all went well, he hoped the medical school might get at least $300,000 a year by the painless-extraction method of the mutuel machines...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward Weiss added that the chronic rheumatic whose trouble starts in the mind suffers from "chronic resentment," but does not realize it. The thing for doctors to do in such cases, he said, is to look for a "focal conflict" as well as for a focal infection. Otherwise, the doctor might do the patient harm by "well-meaning but mistaken" efforts to find a nonexistent physical cause; the real trouble might be an embittered marriage rather than an abscessed tooth...