Word: inventors
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Died. Ann Cooper Hewitt Nicholson, 41, famed in the 1936 tabloids as the "sterilized heiress" after she charged that her mother and two San Francisco doctors had her sterilized without her knowledge to prevent her from bearing an heir to the family fortune (her great-grandfather: Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper, builder in 1830 of the first U.S. steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb); reportedly of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Monterrey, Mexico. Ann Cooper's sensational charges collapsed after the two doctors were acquitted and her mother died. Married six times, she never bore a child...
...teaching. A trip to China in 1934 turned Tobey from a follower into a force. Learning that Oriental art started with calligraphy, he has ever since been making determined stabs in the direction of ending Occidental art the same way. Tobey is today revered and reviled as the inventor of something called "white writing." Tobey's writing is, of course, quite illegible. Cast in loose, delicate swirls, it can soothe the restless eye as much as it may irritate the serene mind. Transit (at left) is a typical example. Speaking of such earnest, miasmal efforts, Tobey explains that "multiple...
...thousand years.") Among the things that the clock computes: the days of the week, date, month and year on the Gregorian calendar, the Julian day and year, the movements of the planets, sunrise and sunset by mean solar time and true solar time, central European time, and sidereal time. Inventor Olsen's own favorite chronologic refinement: a calendar of church feasts, which at the beginning of each year records the coming year's feast days after the calendar mechanism has gone through 570,000 different functions in six minutes...
...Mason City, Iowa has tried another system. Its inventor: Associate Professor Nadine Fillmore of Coe College. Though Professor Fillmore does not ignore other methods of attacking words, she places a heavy emphasis on phonics. Mason City tested two groups of 17 pupils, found that after one semester, 14 of the 17 taught by the Fillmore method had gained anywhere from three-tenths of a month to four years and four months over their counterparts in a normal class...
...Garwood, NJ. has tried the Mae Carden system. This ignores pictures, makes pupils use new words and sentences and then break the sentences down into their logical parts. "Garden children," says Mae Garden, "read sentences, not words." The system stresses "functional grammar" with some phonics. All this, according to Inventor Garden, works wonders...