Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child was pronounced a Mongoloid at six months. We were most fortunate that it should have been detected so early in life. From that time to this we have exerted ourselves physically, mentally, financially and spiritually to her best development. She is now j> years of age and all facial Mongoloid characteristics have vanished. She runs about and plays like another child. Her laughter fills the house and her sense of humor gives us great joy. We make no attempt to urge her to "strive to keep up with others," for we know she is retarded in many ways...
...Albuquerque, Dr. T. M. Pearce of the University of New Mexico predicted that the atomic age would make English a language of acronyms-words formed from the initial letters of other words. Samples: snafu (and variations), UNESCO, AWOL...
...duty in Palestine, July 30, 1947. From their Jewish ex-service comrades of the British forces." And it was signed with many names. Among them: Major Sir Jack Benn Brunei Cohen, who lost both legs in World War I; Wing Commander Lionel Cohen, who won the D.F.C. at the age of 68 in 1944, after 45 R.A.F. operational flights in World War II; Colonel Louis Gluckstein; Lieut. Leonard Veyzor, V.C.; Lieut. Colonel J. H. Levey; Major Edmund de Rothschild...
Carefully Ignored. The Central High report, written seven years ago, had been carefully ignored. Philadelphia kept to its policy of promoting all pupils in its public-school classes, regardless of whether they had made the grade. Purpose: to keep backward students in their own age groups. Result: the dullards retarded the whole class; teaching was geared to the lowest instead of the highest common intelligence...
...city's mass-promotion policy. Immediately, all 144 faculty members of the Olney High School rose up in protest. "The directive," they declared, "implies that every pupil is to be advanced from grade to grade, regardless of attendance, behavior, or ability. The chief criterion is to be chronological age. Pupils having been exposed to this 'something-for-nothing' policy . . . will be unprepared to meet real life. . . ." Emboldened, 14 of the city's 16 high schools joined the battle. Individual teachers began to pepper the newspapers with a spatter of angry letters...