Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's spring recovery has surpassed the brightest forecasts of the experts. In the best pickup since recession's onset, unemployment declined from 516,000 in April to 366,000 in May, when only 6.1% of the working force was jobless...
Bright children must be recognized early and-without neglecting the training of normal and subnormal students-must get tougher courses in their subjects of special ability. The brightest of these, some 2% of the students, should be steered into a broadened program of early college entrance or college-level courses in high school, the authors recommend. A corollary to the suggestions for bright students: Americans must recognize that not every child should go to college...
Coming around the far turn, Calumet's great colt Tim Tam was making his move. The Belmont Stakes, brightest jewel in the Triple Crown of the turf, seemed safely in the bag. Bets on the odds-on favorite seemed safely in the bank...
...before. German will now be in direct competition with French as a language study. And in extending this program, the school has eliminated one of the banes of college applicants--the two-year language study. It had found that less than three years of any language left even the brightest students in a difficult position on College Board exams. Their scores, even if good for second-year students, were not likely to be high enough to impress colleges. And in further changes, Middlesex now starts people on languages earlier in their school career if they wish--it is possible...
...agreement to 1) oppose any tax cuts, 2) go along together on a bill that simply extends for one year the taxes now set for reduction at month's end. But both White House and Capitol Hill knew that Bob Anderson was principally responsible for one of the brightest tactical maneuvers of the Eisenhower Administration-a maneuver that had checked Democratic passions for tax cuts, held back such powerful and restive Republicans as Vice President Nixon and Labor Secretary Mitchell, and won a victory for the kind of conservative, second thought that is Bob Anderson's principal stock...