Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa, who was 30 miles away at Deauville with Fiancee Bettina, watching his nag Shut Up dog it home fourth...
...long battle over just what sort of education the public schools should provide, few voices are more reasonable than that of Professor Paul Woodring of Western Washington College of Education (TIME, Oct. 12, 1953). In his latest book (A Fourth of a Nation; McGraw-Hill, $4.50) Woodring takes a hard look at both the educationists and their critics, offers a sensible compromise of his own. The so-called "new education" that developed out of the progressive revolt of the '20s and '30s, says he, "can no more survive unchanged in the second half of this century than...
Opportunity with Responsibility. In framing a new philosophy of education, the U.S. should not rely primarily on liberal arts professors, few of whom "have ever faced the problem of providing a proper education for a fourth-grader with an IQ of 80." Nor should the nation lean on the educationists, for most of them are not the sort of educational philosophers that are needed. Just where such philosophers would come from no one can say, but, says Woodring, the people themselves "have developed their own unique view of the role of the schools." Though never stated in any complete...
Though Houston has long prided itself on its Texas hospitality, another Texas tradition-gun-toting-has given the city a different kind of reputation in the past two years. With 109 murders last year, Houston (1956 pop. 760,000) had the fourth highest total of criminal homicides of any U.S. city; in 1957, with 93 murders to date, pistol-packing Houston is expected to set a new high score for gore...
AIRLINE PASSENGERS will get a wider choice of fares and flight services, if CAB approves examiners' recommendation. United Air Lines plans a fourth type of service, "custom coach," pegged between first-class and cut-rate (day and night) coach flights, which would match flight times of best first-class flights but stand lower in passenger "extras" and price...