Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic loss ... to the sound, lively and folk-based realism of our time." Among the approved new themes: "work, sports and reconstruction." But Meissen may also continue to make an occasional fancy item for export purposes, such as the elaborate porcelain group entitled Victory of the People that it recently forwarded to the Kremlin...
Teacher McGill persuaded four of his colleagues in the social sciences to join him in an experiment. He picked 185 pairs of students, each pair closely matched in ability. To one group the teachers gave the usual homework assignments, to the other, none at all. Last week in High Points, official magazine of New York City public high-school teachers, McGill made his report...
...homework group had the edge in economics, but the non-homework group (possibly less bleary-eyed) scored slightly better in comprehensive tests of "social-studies abilities." In American history the two groups were even. In all tests, score differences were so small that McGill could only draw one conclusion: in the social sciences, at least, high-school homework neither helps nor hinders very much, merely takes up time. McGill's advice to his colleagues on homework: forget...
Purpose of the new overall body is to pool the best ideas and techniques each group has to offer, and to confront the world with an immensely more powerful united voice. The combination will also save money. By 1952 the Council's budget is expected to amount to less than the previous combined budgets of the constituent agencies...
...large insurance companies or big underwriters outside the 17 threatened serious competition, said Stebbins, they were cut in on the business. But if a "little fellow" tried to join the group, he was ignored. The result, said Stebbins, was that the same investment bankers always got the business of the same corporations...