Word: wrongs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bright-eyed Lucy Mitchell (wife of the famed Columbia economist, Wesley C. Mitchell) such rigidity seemed all wrong. To do something about her convictions, she went to her wealthy cousin, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,* got a promise of $50,000 to start a "bureau of educational experiments." Taking over an old four-story yeast warehouse on Greenwich Village's Bank Street, she opened one of Manhattan's first "progressive" nursery schools. Over the years, she also hired psychologists, physicians, educators and social workers to study child growth and maturity levels from infancy to adolescence...
...fine, manly creed; it is simply baptized stoicism. But as it worships a God who is neither just nor merciful, we can hardly call it Christian." Take Martin Luther: "My detestation of that man grows. This spiritual father of Adolf Hitler says that the state can do no wrong. 'It is God that hangs and beheads men and breaks them on the wheel.' Has any doctrine caused more human misery than this...
Bath in the Clouds. This dramatic feat stirred up a flurry of premature rainmaking. Barnstorming pilots took off with dry ice to knock down fleecy clouds. They did not knock down much rain. For one thing, they often picked on the wrong clouds, e.g., the stratiform (layerlike) clouds, which unless very thick do not contain enough moisture to matter. And they were inclined to overdo, choking the clouds with too much dry ice. A piece of dry ice falling through a supercooled cloud creates enormous numbers of ice nuclei. Too many falling pieces of dry ice create too many nuclei...
...been attacked by the U.S. Weather Bureau, by civilian and military meteorologists. In 1948 the Weather Bureau tried its own cloud-seeding experiments, dumping dry ice and silver iodide into clouds in Ohio. No significant rain fell from them. Langmuir's explanation is that the clouds were the wrong kind in the first place, and that they were greatly overseeded...
...temper, as most people do, but I have never seen an example of it"); 9) interest in the individual ("She has helped me over a period of self-consciousness, and my improvement is due to her making me feel at ease"); 10) flexibility ("When she found she was wrong she said so, and tried something else"); 11) generosity ("Miss X acted as though she didn't know I was dumb and so I decided she'd never find out. That's the first good report card I ever got"); 12) skill ("Suddenly I could read...