Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before 1850, a gifted child was regarded with "a mixture of admiration, awe and hopeful expectation." But in the latter 19th Century the idea spread that the "precocious" child was somehow abnormal, probably headed for failure, neuroticism or insanity. If a child was phenomenally good at one thing it was assumed that he lacked other faculties. Heavy-duty thinkers wrote treatises to prove that a child's mental ability should develop at the orthodox rate if he was to have a well-rounded maturity. These nonsensical ideas, says Dr. Terman, have abated somewhat but have by no means vanished...
Wheelwright. A latter-day descendant of the Massachusetts exile...
...field of Biology, where there was a 29-student rise from 106 to 135. A further movement toward the sciences was shown in Geological Sciences and Architectural Sciences (a new field created last year), the former receiving an increment of 11 men, 64 to 75; and the latter...
Brigham Young-Frontiersman (20th Century-Fox) continues the biographical meanderings of Plutarchian Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck with a two-hour treatise on the two most critical years in the history of the Mormon Church. Beginning with a cruelly realistic, play-by-play account of the persecution of the Latter-Day Saints in Illinois, Producer Zanuck moves his Mormons across the western plains through a succession of bouts with cold and starvation; plants them by the Great Salt Lake for an arduous, hungry winter, a pitched battle with crickets, a final miraculous victory assisted by a flock of sea gulls which...
...junior quartet of scampering Bob Blood, who raced away for a 20-yard touchdown jaunt against Hobart, Tom Mulroy, Obie Slingerland and Perry Sawyer is also available. Blood seems to have answered the Jeffs' kicking problem while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...