Word: eighth
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...Somer set, England in 1638, settled in Braintree, Mass., and founded an American dynasty. Henry Adams' seventh son, Joseph, was the great-great-grandfather of President John Adams and the great-great-great-grandfather of President John Quincy Adams. Sherman Adams traces his lineage through Henry Adams' eighth (and last) son, Edward. *The 399-member New Hampshire house of representatives, the nations' second-largest lawmaking body, includes a representative from every incorporated township with a population of at least...
...knottiest problems in modern education. "I was in one rural school," says Superintendent Paul West of Fulton County, Ga.. "where there were 17 children in one class with IQs ranging from 48 to 152." Reading ability varies accordingly. In 1944, St. Louis found that of its 7,380 eighth-graders, 138 read below fourth-grade level, 353 at fourth, 3,439 below eighth and 2,909 above. The big question: How can a teacher cope with so many different levels...
Over New Year's weekend the Crimson skiers placed sixth out of eight teams in the pre-season Intercollegiate Meet at Lyndonville, Vt. Pete Churchill took eighth in the jumping with a 105.8-foot average. Hanson Robbins placed 15th, Joe Poindexter and Curt Beebe placed 31st and 32nd respectively...
Seiberling Rubber-eighth biggest U.S. rubber company-has not been doing well. Lacking the assured market enjoyed by big companies that sell directly to automakers, it has had to depend instead on chancy replacement sales. In 1954 Seiberling sales dropped 11% below 1953 to $35.7 million, its net earnings 79% to $215,789, and its common-stock earnings from $2.10 in 1953 to 2? per share. The company has started diversifying into plastics, and 1955 looks like a better year, with sales of $34 million and earnings of $834,000 in the first nine months. Said Lamb last week: "Seiberling...
Died. John Caskis Collet, 57, judge of the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals, who was "borrowed" from the bench in 1945 by President Truman to head the Office of Economic Stabilization; after long illness; in Kansas City...