Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oleo implies the presence of beef fat, from which margarine was made when first developed some 90 years...
...Duty: A handsome, square-jawed man whose black hair has begun to grey, Taylor (6 ft., 175 lbs.) has "a dislike of getting fat." To keep in trim he plays handball in winter and tennis in summer. A nonsmoker, he keeps social activities to a minimum, and drinks, according to one acquaintance, "as little as possible for a man of his rank." Married to Lydia Gardner Happer since 1925, he has two sons, John Maxwell, 22, a Government employee, and Thomas...
...last week Woodson Fishback's project, going strong without loss of a single board member, was beginning to look like small, significant landmark in U.S education. To his "students," Fishback fired a fat new reading list of 35 books and pamphlets; he was also arranging four mass forums for them. To the school officials involved, the transformed boards, once of little or no help, are becoming enlightened allies. Said neighboring Murphysboro's delighted Superintendent William Carruthers: "Never . . . have I seen a school board take such an interest in finding out what schools are doing. They are actually reading...
...teaching of mathematics is "ready for drastic alteration." Instead of the old prep-school curriculum of two years of algebra, one of plane geometry, and one of either trigonometry or solid geometry, schools should place more stress on broad mathematical principles. They should trim away some of the excess fat, condense such topics as complex numbers and logarithmic solutions of triangles in favor of the more enlightening study of calculus and statistics...
...Indian uprisings, Cross painted as he went. To do a proper job, he learned at least one Indian tongue (Sioux) and became a practiced frontiersman. Before his death in 1918. he created a pictorial Who's Who of the fierce, lost tribes of the West, along with a fat file of white scouts, explorers and fighters. The four Cross portraits on the following page are from a collection of 135 which is now owned by the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. No less an authority than Buffalo Bill once praised the portraits as "striking likenesses . . . having been sketched from life...