Word: thoughtfullness
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Atlanta's Davison-Paxon store sent its customers dollar bills and asked that they be awarded to courteous clerks. In Seattle, Frederick & Nelson kept a company spy prowling the aisles. His job: giving orchids to polite salesgirls. The help, apparently a little stunned by such thoughtful practices, was positively...
The sense least understood (not counting humor) is the sense of smell. Its subtleties baffle scientists and enrich perfume compounders. Last week Yale's Drs. Lloyd H Beck and Walter R. Miles, after long and thoughtful scratching of their scientific noses, presented the National Academy of Sciences with a...
It is nearly 25 years now since the first TIME readers found what a satisfaction it was to have their friends and relations be TIME-readers, too. For them, giving a subscription to TIME as a present at Christmas has long been the surest and most thoughtful way of sharing...
Said grey, spindly Director Edmund W. Sinnott: "Science is modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its hands alone. [But] logic and reason are no monopoly of science. . . . Science...
That was the beginning of the famed Comstock Lode, but it was 15 years before it really paid off-when it became the royal domain of four shrewd Irishmen. In just one year (1874) each became a multimillionaire. Oscar Lewis, annalist of San Francisco and author of a good book...