Word: attend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, the Associated Press reported, President Kennedy announced plans to attend the funeral. Kennedy called Mrs. Roosevelt "both an inspiration and a friend," and said her death will be "deeply felt by all those who admired her tireless idealism or benefited from her good works and wise counsel...
...Most public high schools are at a distinct disadvantage-they must admit all who want to attend. However, there are schools that have enriched programs for top students. New Trier Township High in Winnetka, Ill., Newton (Mass.) High and Melbourne (Fla.) High are a few examples. For some big-city students attending selective high schools, such as New York City's crack Bronx High School of Science and Lowell High in San Francisco, the curriculum is every bit as rugged and the entrance competition as tough as at Andover...
Gift of Tongues. Many Pentecostals attend church every night for a two-hour service that would make the average Southern Baptist feel uncomfortably High Church. Loud Bible readings and spontaneous testimonials are part of every service, punctuated by shouts of "Aleluya" and "Gracias a Dios." The hymns swell over a rhythmic clapping, generally accompanied by a guitar, drums, tambourines, a bass fiddle, piano or small combo...
...friendly and unpretentious man, Dumas Milner might well consider himself tired. At 18 he borrowed $100 to attend a business school in Chillicothe, Mo., came home after 90 days $480 richer, thanks to a weekly raffle of men's suits that he conducted on the side. He then borrowed $3,500 more to buy a petroleum distributorship in Mississippi, gradually added a tank-truck fleet and a string of service stations. Drafted into the Air Force during World War II, Milner found that the Army did not require all of his talent. While making $68 a month...
...exam should teach as well as test. A professor must unroll a course week by week during the term, and there is not always time to point out all the relationships between topics covered several months apart. The problem is especially acute at Harvard, where many students do not attend all their lectures and therefore tend to miss the lecturer's efforts to fit individual works from the reading list into some over-all pattern. A skillfully devised examination question, however, can lead the student to assemble materials from all the different parts of a course while constructing a single...