Word: alphabetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...registration lines will wind through Memorial Hall, starting at the South Door, and emptying at the far portico. Doors open at 9 a.m. for those whose last initials begin with A through L. The rest of the alphabet registers from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; all late arrivals from...
...ready to go to sea in earnest. He knew the "riggin' and runnin' gear" as well as the alphabet, but life on a whaler held odd surprises for him. The oddest: having to douse his clothes in urine, the standard detergent aboard the oily whalers, before washing them in sea water...
First Grade. Last winter Carolyn went back to the beginning. Her family got her a special teacher. Carolyn learned the alphabet again, then learned to count up to 31 by reading the calendar. After two weeks her teacher jumped her to second grade. A few weeks later, in fourth grade, Carolyn wrote: "I like to sew. I like to go uptown. I want to go to the Bonclarken Conference [of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church]. I like to ride a bicycle." By the beginning of summer, Carolyn had sailed successfully through eight grades...
...financial prophet. At a time when even F.D.R. was talking about a balanced budget, Eccles, a successful banker and a Republican, dumfounded his colleagues by proposing that the U.S. "spend" its way out of depression. Before a Senate committee in 1933, he described the need for many of the alphabet agencies which later came into being. But Eccles never considered himself a New Dealer; he thought in fiscal, not social, terms...
...Near the Bolan Pass, the expedition, came across its first big find: 36 sites which yielded pottery of a hitherto unknown type. On the bottom of many of the pieces were mysterious little signs, some 30 different ones, that look as if they might be the beginnings of an alphabet. Some of the sites, Fairservis believes, go back as far as 5000 B.C. Near Kandahar the party discovered pottery goddesses with the outsized breasts that many primitive peoples worshiped as symbols of fertility...