Word: maynard
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...Westerns were mostly a staple of B-minus movies. Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Ken Maynard and others rode through hundreds of Saturday matinee sagebrush epics, and John Wayne made 50 or 60 of them before he became a star with the 1939 Stagecoach. That was Ford's first Western of that decade, and he made no more until My Darling Clementine in 1946, finally devoting his full attention to the genre in the mid-50s. By then it had become his calling card. "I'm John Ford," he'd announce. "I make Westerns...
...Princeton economics major Jack Bogle wrote a senior thesis extolling the virtues of the small but growing mutual-fund industry. At the time the reigning view of the stock market was that expressed 1 1/2 decades earlier by the great English economist (and speculator) John Maynard Keynes: it was a "casino," a "whirlpool of speculation," a "game of Snap, of Old Maid, of Musical Chairs." Young Bogle argued that the growth of professionally managed funds would bring a new age of calm rationality to the market and thus "militate against Lord Keynes' dismal and socialistic conclusions...
...district-wide parent survey in June that found that parents opposed extending the school day from six to eight hours by a nearly two-to-one margin. (The latter survey did not disaggregate data for the two schools that have added class time, the King and the Fletcher-Maynard Academy...
...past several years the King and the Fletcher-Maynard, the two smallest of Cambridge's 12 primary schools, have been among the district's lower performing when measured by state standardized test scores...
From 2002 to 2005, the Fletcher-Maynard scored last among Cambridge schools in achievement on both the mathematics and English language arts tests, while the King scored second to last in math and fourth from the bottom in English, according to an audit report released last year by the Massachusetts Department of Education...