Word: everitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the fireworks over. The next evening, after considerable discussion, Benjamin entered the two-mile against Graham Everitt, Scotland's 4:03 miler. Excitement began to grow as Benjamin led the field through the first mile in 4:29. As Everett fell behind, Benjamin kept up his withering pace. With a last 440 of 63.0, he hit the tape in a sensational 8:55.2, a new Harvard record and the best performance this season by an American runner...
...proportion of Missouri Negroes live, most schools have a majority of white pupils. But not all. One that does not is the Eugene Field School, which, up until this fall, had only Negro students. Now, along with 860 colored children it has 40 white children. Its principal, Mr. Fay Everitt, and all its teachers are still Negroes...
...children new to the Field neighborhood could not go to Clark due to the new districting laws, but the 30 former Clark pupils could easily return to their old school. To date, none of them have. No conflicts between colored and white children have occurred. Moreover, the principal, Mr. Everitt, reports that the majority of colored children does not browbeat the few white children. Their relationships are straight-forward and easy-going. White parents have joined the Parent-Teachers Association. And, according to Mr. Everitt, more and more white children will attend Field each year. In the case...
...sciences and higher mathematics should begin no later than the junior year in high school. But in the last 50 years, the proportion of high-school students studying algebra has dropped from 50% to 20%, physics from 20% to 4%. Says University of Illinois Engineering Dean William Everitt: "We can't teach these boys algebra and geometry or primary physics and chemistry in the colleges." Today M.I.T. reckons one in four of its freshman engineering students to be poorly prepared, while Illinois Institute of Technology is only 60% filled for lack of properly qualified applicants...
...Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been, or a "Wuzzer." In 1910 Studebaker entered the auto business by buying control of Detroit's Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Co. Though Studebaker didn't know it, E-M-F's most valuable asset was in the person of a young man named Harold Vance, who started there that same year as a 15?-an-hour mechanic's apprentice...