Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Point of Departure. Last week the Dilowa Hutukhtu, urbane, erect and 66, was a Lattimore house guest in Baltimore's Ruxton suburb. He speaks Tibetan, Chinese, and everyday Mongol, reads the literary classical Mongol, which has changed little since the days of Genghis Khan. But since he understands no English, he will do no teaching yet. For the time being, he will be a research adviser on Mongolian culture and religion...
...convention. If he performs this self-assertion courageously, he will escape from the vanities of the "Trivial Plane" into the self-transcending verities and "cosmic perspective" of the "Tragic Plane." On the other hand, nothing, in these bad days, can save him if he obstinately clings to an uninspired, everyday way of life; for, as Melville's preacher has expressed it in Moby Dick...
Like many another copybook maxim, the old saw about an idle mind being the devil's workshop has validity in psychiatry as well as in everyday life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
...Many Slide Rules. In addition, AEC was charged with failing to bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...
They translated the school laws into everyday language, and had them published in newspapers throughout the state, so that everyone could judge them. They denounced the state administration for spending $25,000 to investigate the school system, and then hiding the report from the public. Finally, the council began its most ambitious project: it sent out committees to investigate the condition of every one of Delaware's 164 public schools. Last week, the first report went out to educators, legislators, and civic groups all over the state...