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...After all this talk about helping the veteran find himself, it's about time somebody rehabilitated the folks back home. We think there is quite a lot of fighting still to be done before we and our children can have a future which measures up to our yardstick. We think a church with fewer members AWOL offers a solution. We know that while the church may not have all the answers, it has some of them...
...meets buyers in the U.S. The art dealers, who have to charge up to 50% commission to pay 57th Street's high rents, and the art critics, who have to scurry all season to cover the Street's scores of important shows, both regard 57th as the yardstick of art. Last week the scurrying slowed, the season waned, and dealers and critics sat back to review the "trends...
President Conant's dictum is that the foundation of good teaching is creative research. The yardstick of the ad hoe committee, whose recommendations for permanent tenure are almost tantamount to election, has been the amount of published research done by the individual instructor. In so many words, this means that an instructor must, before his alloted time runs out, spend most of his time and effort in somehow culling sufficient material for a book out of the big research libraries of the country. This effort is made necessarily at the expense of his tutoring, no matter how implicitly he might...
...national income is the economist's yardstick for measuring the prosperity of the nation, and as this represents an increase of $458 billion dollars over the 1944 income, Hansen's prophecy is enormous in its scope...
...earnings of the steel industry in the first nine months this year, said he, were "well in excess" of the profit yardstick of 1936-39- Based on current operations, earnings "would be in excess of this standard for the full year." He brushed away the demands of Big Steel that price increases should be given now, on the basis of present earnings. Cutbacks in war contracts, said he, had made present operations in the industry abnormal. They would not be back to "normal" until early in 1946. At that time, said Mr. Bowles, the matter of a price boost would...