Word: haye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Superintendent Charles E. Wingo of Argo, Summit and Bedford Park, 111. uses a system originally started by the late Julie Hay, a longtime Bedford Park schoolteacher. Teacher Hay figured out that 87% of all the syllables in the abridged Webster's dictionary are phonetic. The Hay-Wingo system begins with the short vowel sounds, then the ten most commonly used consonants. After that come the long vowel sounds and the ,rest of the consonants. Within two months, local teachers claim, "the children are unlocking words-on their...
...acres near Lyons, Mich. "But I'm not for 90% of parity. I'm for flexibility, something as close to supply and demand as you can get. I don't like artificial situations." Said Harold Umbaugh, 42, who has chickens, corn, wheat, oats, soybeans and hay on his 195 acres at New Paris, Ind.: "We farmers don't like to be on the dole. We like to make our own decisions. We ought to use price supports like brakes on a car, for emergencies...
...almost $6,000,000 in construction and remodeling, the highest amount spent for this purpose since the early 30's. Of this, $4,991,000 was from gifts of alumni, friends, and two foundations. These figures do not include the $2,500,000 gift of alumnus John Hay Whitney, New York investor, toward the purchase of the New Haven school property...
...politician, knows as well as the politicians in the Eisenhower Administration that the political clamor about the farm situation is dangerous. The farm belt, which could swing the 1956 Presidential election one way or the other, is uneasy. Democrats have been making and will make a lot of political hay out of this uneasiness in some farm areas, e.g., Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. But Ezra Benson will not be stampeded. After his conference with the President last week he said firmly: "This Administration, according to the President . . . will not attempt to outpromise or to out-appropriate some...
...whether a hippopotamus is 'frustrated' or not?" asked the mammalologist. "You may offer him some hay and then take it away just before he takes a big bite, and he may then growl, grunt, squeal, or do whatever a hippopotamus does, but that does not necessarily mean he's 'frustrated'," he added...