Word: developed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange story of federal grants for strange studies goes on. In last week's installment, University of Virginia English Professor Eric D. Hirsch received $137,935 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a standard for judging the "relative readability" of writing...
...putting several hundred papers through this process, Hirsch hopes to develop a new method of grading. Says he: "If it takes two minutes to read the good version and 2.3 minutes to read the original student version, that gives you a proportion of 87%, meaning the student's paper is 87% effective...
...quite. But the wonder boy had been riding long enough to develop that special link between man and mount. Says Cauthen: "I've got a good rapport with my horse. I know him well, and he knows me. He does everything right. He's by far the smartest horse I've ever been on. He's never burned out, and always has had something left. I knew from the start he would be a fine Derby prospect...
Serban added he works carefully with actors to help them develop highly expressive sounds. When asked how he did this, he replied, "It's a secret...
Joseph Hannon, Chicago school superintendent: "We feel magnet schools are effective. Just because the courts find a problem with one desegregation program, the rubric doesn't have to be placed on every other plan. Uniquely each city has to develop its plan based on its needs...