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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scheduling fast action on minimum programs, scaled down drastically from bold forecasts at the beginning of the 86th Congress, the leaders decided to call it -quits, adjourn this week if possible. Muttered one thoughtful Demo cratic Senator: "We've been gutted, absolutely gutted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Stone Wall | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

With a new McNaught Syndicate writer-artist team set to pump fresh ink into Joe, his prospects for an early retirement have faded fast. Best guess is that Joe's son will indeed be born. But poor Joe may never see the life as the worker for good causes that Leff had planned. Instead, to earn his living-and contribute to the McNaught Syndicate's income-Joe is more than likely to be tossed back into the ring with the rest of the palookas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joe Palooka's Future | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Angeles' Memorial Coliseum was beginning to realize that the husky (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) Dodger southpaw might be heading for a record. Out on the mound, Sandy Koufax, 23, wiped away sweat and bore grimly down with each pitch, firing a fast ball that hopped as though magnetized, a crackling curve that dipped down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid from Brooklyn | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Other movie companies can sell out to television and other moviemen can collect the fast bucks that come from making TV quickies. But at 20th Century-Fox, President Spyros P. Skouras clings to the old-fashioned notion that Hollywood ought to make lots of money by making lots of movies. Last week he announced that 20th is driving ahead on one of the biggest shooting schedules in its history: 60 pictures in production, with another 28 screenplays ready for the cameras. Among $20 million worth of pictures to be released before the end of 1959: William Faulkner's Requiem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Big Budget | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...social utility" approach, which make the subject either inscrutable or silly. The new idea is to fascinate children with mathematical concepts and analysis so they can reason as scientists do. San Diego tried it last year, got ,000 children of all mental levels to advance twice as fast. This year a revolutionary new textbook embodying the technique will spread throughout the U.S. Everywhere brighter children are reaching algebra much earlier, sometimes by the sixth grade. ¶ Foreign language study is soaring, especially in elementary schools. Last year the U.S. Office of Education urged all schools to begin ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Inspector General | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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