Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School's kindergarten eight years ago. "Contrary to the opinion of experts," she writes, "I find that fives can reason; their ears can hear phonics; their eyes can read, their muscular coordination does permit them to learn to write . . . They are enthusiastic, curious, keenly observant, open-minded, ager to learn, receptive and imaginative. As sheer pupil stuff, they are a teacher's dream come true...
...transformers and various electrical filters, has raised its work force to 15 (now all adults) in a new plant. Since Allen has had to finance his business out of profits, he has been care ful to see that whatever he made was certain to sell, draws only a teen-ager's pocket money for himself...
Knox had yet to feel any sense of religious vocation, but he had more than the nominal teen-ager's attraction to the religious life. At 17 he made a vow of celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity . . . I must have 'power to attend upon the Lord without impediment...