Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first, beautiful wife, Mary Swift, and did her best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But Parry's story is mostly about the Major and his times. Son of the founder and first commandant of Fort Dearborn (later Chicago), a handsome soldier and famous engineer, constructor of the then marvelous Western Railroad of Massachusetts, Major Whistler was engaged by Tsar Nicholas in 1842 to build Russia's first long-distance railroad - from St. Petersburg to Moscow...
Students increased their reading speed from 230 to 450 words per minute over a two month period, under the direction of Irving H. Anderson, instructor in Education, and Walter F. Dearborn, professor of Education...
...Bond and Dearborn to Supervise...
Eldon A. Bond, instructor in Education, has been appointed to aid Dearborn with the class this year in the absence of Anderson who is now in Michigan. There are two mediums used in the experiment: motion pictures and regular reading tests...
Developed by Walter F. Dearborn, director of the Harvard Psycho-Educational Clinic, this new technique in reading gives promise of being one of the most effective devices for the improvement of skills in reading...