Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This brief but lusty flurry was the game's only run-making, although M.I.T. mounted its third threat of the game in the top of the eighth. After giving up two singles with no one out, Lincoln bore down and got the next three batters on fly balls...
...Eighth Day, Wilder...
Texan Sherrill, in fact, had been a tough man to catch ever since the eighth grade, when at 15 he joined the Marine Corps and, before reaching draft age, was fighting on Bougainville. At 17, he landed at Guam and Iwo Jima, where he was winged in the arm. While at a Navy hospital, he took education tests and scored so high that he skipped high school to enter the University of Houston. From there he went to Harvard Business School. Returning to Houston, he became city treasurer and chief administrative officer in four years. Then he joined College...
...index is 210. If on the final test he reads at 1500 words per minute, he need score only 42 per cent on the comprehension score to triple his former reading index to 630. What makes this stipulation even less valid is that before the final test during the eighth lesson, the students are usually instructed to "go full out" even if they have not mastered the technique...
This leads to the basic deception of the Reading Dynamics course. The comprehension test in the first session is much more difficult than the one in the eighth session. The tests are usually on the first and second half of a biography of Albert Einstein. The first questions are almost all fill-ins, and are specefic questions which require detailed recall. The questions on the second test are multiple choice and much less specific...