Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collective bargaining" was the textbook term for what had been going on during the nine weeks of the Chrysler strike in Detroit. But the 10,574 Chrysler dealers with nothing to sell, the 89,000 employees of the 25 Chrysler plants, and the thousands of parts suppliers and their workers who live by Chrysler earnings knew it last week as a long and distressful siege...
Guesswork in GobbledygooL The psychologists are worse, torn as they are between gestaltists, behaviorists, functionalists, reflexologists and other -ists. They expend their energies formalizing the obvious ("Although other sensations have various degrees of hedonic tone," says one textbook, "pain is notoriously unpleasant"). But the result of all their efforts, Standen insists, is that they cannot say anything really important about man. "It is possible to go clear through a course in psychology without ever hearing what the various virtues...
Hoping to "sound the alarm" about the continuing seriousness of appendicitis, Dr. Boyce has written a book, Acute Appendicitis and Its Complications (Oxford, $8.75). The first essential, he says, is still accurate diagnosis. And unfortunately, appendicitis does not always cause the textbook symptoms: e.g., nausea, pain and tenderness in the lower right-hand quarter of the belly. Pain may be felt anywhere in the abdomen, often above the navel, or even in the right shoulder. And appendicitis may hide under the symptoms of many other diseases...
...working with Columbia's late Psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, who had done quite a bit of counting himself. By combing through thousands of pages of English, Thorndike had picked out the 10,000 words most frequently used. His Teacher's Word Book revolutionized the writing of English textbooks for children and foreigners. In one book for Spaniards, Thorndike and Lorge found, the author had included such rarities as caterpillar, snail, and cocoon in Lesson Five. In a text for Italians, wrench, bellows, tongs, and plumbline appeared on Page 10. One textbook started out waving the word...
...admits that his Semantic Count of the 570 Commonest Words is a "scholar's enterprise" ("I don't expect to hit the bestseller lists"). So far, he has printed only 49 copies, but he hopes that these, planted in libraries throughout the U.S., will help dictionary and textbook writers to begin putting first things first...