Word: eights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only eight months after his election to eight more years on the bench, Michigan's Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker, more widely known as best-selling Novelist Robert Trover (Anatomy of a Murder), made up his mind. He will soon resign from the court. "I must either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other...
Tackling the U.S. teacher shortage, Yale last week announced the results of a three-year project directed by Yale Education Professor Emeritus Clyde M. Hill. Eight Connecticut housewives (aged 30 to 45) attended special classes at the University of Bridgeport, taught part time in the public schools of Fairfield. All the women got higher academic scores than the norm for college girls, compared favorably with new college graduates. All taught better for having broader life experience than the average young teacher. Yale's total training cost per teacher: $750, much less than for younger student teachers. With five...
Died. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, 67, Norwegian-born tennis ace who won the U.S. Women's Singles championship eight times (1915 to 1927) by a trick of hitting the ball just before it reached its height; in Stockholm, Sweden...
...generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time in the 12th century a Jew named David Rahabi, believed to be from Egypt, discovered them. Noting that they abstained from work on the Sabbath, circumcised their male children when they were eight days old, stayed indoors on Yom Kippur, and refused to eat fish without fins and scales, he decided they must be Jews. Rahabi set about rescuing their religion; he gave them prayers and rituals, and taught Hebrew to three of their most promising young men. Ever since, the community has observed...
Both foreign and American students will live in the building, plans for which include suites for 11 married and visiting scholars, as well as eight apartments for unmarried students. Most of the people at the Center, according to the Rev. Slater, will study at the Divinity School under a new Ph.D. program in the History and Philosophy of Religions...