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Word: following (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rose Is a Gertrude | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Samborski also announced the Under-graduate Athletic Council for this year, composed of the House Athletic Secretaries. The Council members follow: Joseph A. Wyant, Winthrop, president; William F. Pennebaker, Leverett, vice-president; Dean R. Noyes, Dunster; Harold Glickman, Dudley; George Dana, Eliot, George B. Lyons, Kirkland; Edmund J. Docring, Lowell; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics; Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, and Samborski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Triumphs Over Eliot As Dudley Noses Out Dunster | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

After the termination of the run in Boston, Miss Cornell plans to follow "No Time for Comedy" on a tour of the United States to the West Coast. Then she hopes to take a vacation, but says it is very possible that she will begin another performance -- probably a "bawdy" Shakespearean comedy--immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Katherine Cornell Avows Her Weakness For All Harvard Men, Young and Old | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

Theirs was something of a tour de force. But onlookers will find much more to admire in the course taken by Granville Hicks, who refused to follow them through their tortuous dialectical labyrinths. For he demonstrated his possession of something they did not have: intellectual integrity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS AND STONES | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

...Remedial Reading course, the eyes of the spectator are forced through the use of movies to follow the movements that a skillful reader's eyes would follow. The movie shows successive phrases flashed rapidly across and down the screen in such a way that the reader's eyes are involuntarily attracted to each group of words as it appears. Thus the student learns to read by phrases rather than single words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Receive New Reading Instruction to Raise Eye Speed | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

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