Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yankees. For years he had trouble getting the ball down the middle. In 1949 a doctor, after examining his vision, advised him to quit baseball. But Ryne persisted, finally licked his wildness with the help of Manager Lefty O'Doul at Vancouver in 1956. "He taught me to aim at the catcher's knee, at his shoulder, at his belt," says Duren. "To move it around, one ball high and away, the next low and inside. I tried and it worked." With Denver last year Duren pitched a no-hitter in his first start...
...their gloom, the conference members reported some progress. Teachers who aim first at providing conversational ability, with reading, writing and grammar added later, are gaining ground. Recordings and taped playbacks of students' own speech are proving valuable. Most encouraging statistic of the report: since 1952 an increasing number of school systems have adopted plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many...
Ideally, the hope should be to develop a company in which every actor could do a creditable Hamlet tomorrow and every actress a Lady Macbeth the day after. The aim must be kept high if great results are to be achieved...
...aim is to give youngsters who would be unable to read the classics in their original form a knowledge of the great works of literature in a modernized vocabulary. Confronted with large numbers of reluctant and retarded readers, our nation's schools have found Globe's publications most valuable...
Died. Marion Hilliard, M.D., 56, Canadian gynecologist whose thoughtful essays on the act and fact of love won transcontinental gratitude; of cancer; in Toronto. With "a happy bedroom" the central aim of her medical philosophy, Spinster Hilliard published many articles in Chatelaine, collected them in one best-selling volume (A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life...