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Word: elevens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep time with her fingers and to twirl her hands to the rhythm of Hickory, Dickory, Dock. As her ability to coordinate her body movements increased, she began to pronounce her first words. After that came years of phonetic drill and tongue exercises, but by the time she was eleven, she was able to enroll in a special class in the regular public-school system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Chance at Normality | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Many experts had believed, for example, that membership in a gang was a primary cause of juvenile delinquency, but the Gluecks discovered that nine-tenths of the delinquents show their earliest anti-social symptoms before the age of eleven, whereas boys do not usually join gangs until they are in their teens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Predicting Delinquency | 1/25/1957 | See Source »

...First prize ($2,000) to Bronx Sculptor-Welder Seymour Lipton, 53. for his bronze-braised, 8-ft. tall The Cloak (left). Lipton, who finally retired from dentistry two years ago to become a full-time sculptor and now has work in eleven museums, takes his cue from biological forms, feels that The Cloak, with its enclosing forms, symbolizes the fact that for man, as well as plant life, "protection is necessary if there is to be growth." ¶Second prize ($1,000) to Abstract Expressionist James Brooks, 50, for his swirling 7-ft.-by-7-ft. R-1953 (right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Wins a Prize? | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...BUSINESS Pressure on Prices The average pay of U.S. workers set an alltime high in December of $2.05 hourly, or $84.05 a week. Employment of 64.6 million also set a record for the month. The Connecticut Manufacturers Association survey of 70 companies found one job unfilled for every eleven taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Pressure on Prices | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

MILESTONES Born. To Nancy Kelly, 35, stage-and-screen actress (The Bad Seed) and Warren Caro, 49, Theatre Guild executive: a daughter, their first child, eleven weeks prematurely; in Manhattan. Name: Kelly Lurie. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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