Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shift. Then Drs. Jesse L. Greenstein of Caltech and Maarten Schmidt of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories decided to test a novel theory. When any object is moving away from the earth at a speed that is close to the speed of light, its light waves appear to slow down in frequency. Bright bands of the spectrum that are normally blue show up as yellow. Yellow bands become red. Stars have never been known to move fast enough to show such large light shifts, so Drs. Greenstein and Schmidt studied the strange spectra just as if they came from another...
Days of Wine and Roses. An old-fashioned but effective diatribe against Demon Rum, in which Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick serve impressively as the object lessons...
Room for Bloom. The new way, geared to individual differences, is to banish formal grades and group children according to performance. Instead of grades one to six. Maple Park confronts a child with a ig-rung ladder-19 "levels"' of scholastic achievement. The object is to let the child climb at his own pace, moving from one level to the next not by a fixed calendar but according to his achievement. He is always in a homogeneous class of the same general ability, even though the other children may be younger or older...
...result represents a consummation devoutly to be wished by influential thinkers of the day." Since Royster's $100 was transferred from one party to another, the editorial reasoned, both the gross national product and the national income showed gains, and such "redistribution of income" is "the whole object of current economic policy." It also helps, added the editorial, if money "can be transferred from corporations and rich folk, who might have a proclivity toward savings, to the hands of those who will inject it more quickly into the spending stream...
...engulfed Addie's voice t was a good thing: the referee's card (eight rounds for Clay, one for Jones one even) was absurd. The chant started in the upper balconies: "Fix! Fix! Fix! Fake! Fake! Fake!" A photographer at ringside was knocked cold by a flying object that creased the back of his skull Peanuts rained onto the ring. Casually, Cassius Clay picked up a handful, cracked the shells, and tossed the nuts into his mouth...