Word: working
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading what Mrs. Holstein "cooked" for her 14 guests, I think a woman would have to go out to work to pay her food bill! If more women would try making pea soup with a ham bone instead of buying it in can, there wouldn't be so much griping about not being able to make ends meet. MRS. FRANTZ Levittown...
...culinary cubist" is certain, eventually, to come up with a tasty meal-in-one capsule. Then Mrs. Holstein can work overtime and still rush home to feed 14 admiring guests. If they were impressed with the factory-assembled meal, they will be ecstatic over capusules. EVELYN B. SPANG Ann Arbor, Mich...
...work as a teacher of ceramics to students in the middle and older age brackets, I am in contact with what is happening to people as a result of our increasingly "easy life." People who relinquish the common home chores unknowingly also give up "status"-and the satisfaction of each one having done something himself. So, in one sense, all of the industrial advancements only make my work more necessary—building confidence in the latent abilities of each of my students. Now my students make the very soup bowl (out of clay, glazed and fired) into which they will pour...
...this nice point), I shout hurrah! hurrah! migawd, hurrah! for James Worley [Dec. 7]. Probably Worley would disagree with me on the subject of physical restraint in the schools, but I want him to know that I agree with him 100% on the subject of teachers' paper work, especially in the euphemistically entitled lesson plans. HAROLD A. DE PUY ex-Pearl River High School Spring Valley...
...TIME, Nov. 23, you state: "In U.S. hospitals, occupational therapy is usually make-work and little better than leaf raking." Correction, please. Make-work may be used in U.S. hospitals when objective is not the product, or service performed, but the effect the activity itself has on the patient's disability, e.g., woodworking may be indicated because the bicycle saw used exercises the leg muscles in a special way; or painting because the canvas serves as a medium for the mental patient to express feelings he can't put into words. On the other hand, a patient...