Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John W. Studebaker's Commission on Life Adjustment Education for Youth [TIME, Dec. 15] really takes itself seriously, it should delete the word "Education" from its impressive title. If the group's goal is to see that our nation's youth is equipped merely with such utilitarian skills as the secrets of job hunting, the intricacies of homemaking, the mysteries of "practical" English, and the essentials of physical fitness, then we as a nation have no right to call ourselves an educated people...
...Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed at Yalta. This will all come out 20 years hence, when Stalin writes his war memoirs. . . . But I shall not then be alive- I shall never know...
...Yorkers began to enjoy the storm. Debutante parties went on as scheduled; male guests skied to some, lugging boxes containing debs' frocks and fixings. A New Jersey taxi service began a search for horse-drawn pungs; it got none, but inspired hundreds to go around repeating the curious word aloud. Even the disgruntled commuter, once he got within limping distance of home, enjoyed acting like Admiral Byrd...
Made of unbreakable Vinylite, the Holt-Army records give four hours of instruction on 44 sides-against one hour and 52 minutes for its long-established competitor, Linguaphone. The Army's 1,200-word vocabulary is commonplace instead of cultural, concentrates on such workaday problems as ordering a meal, seeing the sights, locating the washroom...
...Shaw merely an iconoclastic critic of humanity's failings who exaggerated for the sake of sensation? Not according to him: like Lear's Fool, he meant every word he said. "The real joke," he once remarked, "is that 1 am in earnest...