Word: purports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Increasingly popular in U. S. high schools in the last ten years have been social science texts which purport to give pupils a "realistic" view of the U. S. way of life. New Dealish in tone, they are critical of big business, cry out against unequal distribution of wealth and unequal opportunities in the U. S. Few years ago businessmen, alarmed at what sounded like undermining of the U. S. system of private enterprise, began to protest. They attacked particularly a series of 20 books written by mild-mannered, white-haired Professor Harold Ordway Rugg of Columbia University...