Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faded yellow-brick-and-plaster house in Adyar, Maria Montessori is hard at work. She lectures in Italian two or three times a week; Mario translates into English for her. She is surer than ever of one thing: "The child is capable of achieving culture at an age hitherto unsuspected." She now teaches arithmetic at 3½, algebra at five, and finds that eight-year-olds learn algebra quicker than 14-year-olds, for they consider it a game, instead of something to dread. An 18-month-old child, she says, is "perhaps happiest when learning" and every child...
...Lansing, a 32-year-old geneticist and old-age expert at Washington University, has been studying the rotifer, a minute animal that lives in water. Rotifers are ideally fitted for experiments on senescence : they are multicellular,* have simple brains, eye spots, and live three weeks or less. The females produce fertile eggs without male help. (The males are rare, weak, often impotent, live only 24 hours...
...shortage had been solved last February. At that time, car builders, steelmakers, railmen and the Office of Defense Transportation agreed on a program to turn out more cars (rising to 10,000 a month by September), and thus solve the shortage once & for all. That program, said Iron Age, "is shot to pieces...
...profound if remote jolt to the student of social science. No one needed further proof that the technical genius of man had far outrun the knowledge of his own perversity. The science of the twentieth century laboratory had left the science of the social thinker in the stone age. The committee membership cannot help but recognize this fact...
...Reilly?" said the sage of the age as he Coombs his Scully scarching for a proper rejoinder. "Just to show you how I Felt. I will pick it straight as Lazzaro because we can't Moffie this one. It will be no Halliday but by DeFilipo the coin it will be Rt Ro Diverto and Harvard 14 Holy Cross...