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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Divided into two sections, the essay portion of the questioning uses what is known as the "future auto-biography" method. Students are therein asked to write a free essay on their plans, expectations and aspirations between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Psychologists Await Replies On Value-Judgment Survey | 1/24/1950 | See Source »

...last week, Costa Ricans once again could boast that their country's schoolmasters outnumber their soldiers. This happy state of affairs had been accomplished by the simple method of abolishing the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Vaccinated & Feeling Fine | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Writing is easy," Welsh Novelist Richard Llewellyn once said. "You just go home and roll up your sleeves and it comes." This method, which might only bring gooseflesh to the ordinary arm, has produced a rash of virulently contagious novels from Llewellyn's. He first broke out in 1940 with How Green Was My Valley, which spread to over 700,000 customers and also flared up in a Hollywood movie. While the fever raged, many readers and a few critics raved that it was a great novel. By 1943, when None But the Lonely Heart appeared, Llewellyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childe Rosie in Italy | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...must become allies of the scientific method if we are to reform our criminals," she said. "All our laws have not lessened the number of persons who cross prison doorways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters Asks For Law Reform | 1/18/1950 | See Source »

...principle had been studied for years before the scientists bumped into the method of uranium fission. After the war the President had vetoed allout effort on an H-bomb because it was not worth the regimentation of the economy and enormous expense. But the Russian atomic explosion had drastically clipped the atomic lead upon which a great deal of U.S. security and strategy was based. A group of top scientists went to work on a new analysis. Their report: granted a huge concentration of effort, a guarantee of ironclad priorities and some two to four billion dollars, they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Choice | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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