Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whale's spout made of? One theory: the spout is condensed vapor from the whale's moist breath. But in the tropics, where breath does not condense, the whale's spout is just as visible as in arctic cold. In Britain's Nature, Dr. F. C. Fraser and P. E. Purves tackle the old controversy again...
Yale thinks that its students have never read better. On the other hand, Associate Professor John Jordan of the University of California's English department has noted that half of U. of C.'s applicants regularly flunk the English entrance examination. "If 50% of the top 20% of the high-school graduates cannot pass the test," says he, "it seems to suggest that, for one reason or another, the students are not very well prepared by the public schools...
...newspaper or on the experience chart, and the children see their own words translated into what otherwise would be meaningless symbols. Whatever devices she uses, the teacher sticks fairly close to her pupils' interest and experiences. She may take them to an airport, says Associate School Superintendent Helen C. Bailey of Philadelphia, and then have them dictate a story about it to her. "This is a kind of commercial to get them interested. We show them the words so they'll want to read." It is also one method of developing a pupil's story sense...
Hollywood's sellout to TV last week moved into the multimillion-dollar bracket. Thomas F. O'Neil, president of General Teleradio and new board chairman of RKO Radio Pictures, announced a $15 million deal with C & C Super Corp., which has taken a perpetual lease on 740 RKO features and 1,000 shorts. The features include such old favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kitty Foyle, Stage Door, Having Wonderful Time, Once Upon a Honeymoon and eight Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. All the films in the package...
Small Talk. In Gastonia, N.C., stopped by police for wrong-way driving on a oneway street, J. C. Crump protested that he had not had a drink all day, was arrested and fined $100 when his four-year-old son piped from the back seat: "Why daddy, you just took a drink when you let mamma out at the employment office...