Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Throwing his fork ball with its usual effect, cold-eyed Reliever Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates stopped a rally in the eighth, but gave up two runs in the ninth to lose to the Dodgers, 5-4, dropped his first game since May 30, 1958, and snapped a 22-game winning streak. Cracked Face, as he regarded his 17-1 record: "Well, Walter Johnson lost...
Virtuoso Instrument. By any description it could boast of remarkable achievements. It homogenized waves of immigrants, inculcated morality without religious affiliation and boosted brainpower across the nation. From an eighth-grade education in 1940, the median schooling of adult Americans has risen to 10.8 years (and will be 12.2 by 1965). Against 95,000 graduates in 1900, U.S. high schools this year produced 1,500,000, and half of them are going to college. And out of public schools in every corner of the land have marched armies of the nation's future leaders...
...high schools because they cost less (no labs or shops needed). The teachers are paid less; the schools are not always citadels of learning. And the problems of combustible half adolescents in the seventh and eighth grades are one of the key blind spots in education...
Soon after World War I, outside influences began to creep behind Amana's calico curtain. Young people wanted more than the eighth-grade education allowed by the elders. Secret radios were heard in defiance of a church ban, bicycles appeared, and one man even drove a car home. Worst of all, young Amanas began drifting away, seeking work and a richer, livelier life in the cities. "Human nature simply asserted itself," Dr. Henry G. Moershel, 58, Amana's longtime president, explained last week. "People were getting their keep whether they worked or not, and many were starting little...
...your copy of TIME has been printed in one of seven cities-four in the U.S., three overseas. The U.S. and Canadian editions are printed by plants in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington, overseas editions in Paris, Tokyo and Havana. This week TIME rolled off presses in an eighth plant: Williams Press Inc. in Albany...