Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor James Palmer, of the Newton School Committee, cited comparative figures to prove that the U. S. neglects its teachers. Great Britain, according to Palmer, spends over 30 percent more on education than the U. S., and the U.S.S.R. allocates an annual figure of seven and one half billion dollars to educators' salaries compared to two and one half billion...
...accordance with a decision reached last spring after lengthy discussion, the Dana Palmer House will soon be transferred from its present location on the corner of Quincy and Harvard Streets to the lot between the Faculty Club and the Union in order to make room for the new building...
Eliot: lf, England; rf, Palmer; c, Critchton; rg, Stout; lg, Farmer. Kirkland: lf, Bessman; rf, Viegas; c, Carlin; rg, Edison; lg, Glynn...
...black earth grows tall corn and bumper crops, there lives a Brobdingnagian boy. He stands 7 ft. 7 in his socks, sleeps in a 9-ft. bed, and picks as much as 300 pounds of cotton a day. When he isn't farming, 19-year-old Max Edward Palmer, wearing a little toothbrush mustache, is a freshman at Walnut Consolidated High and plays forward on the basketball team. Last week, he scored all of Walnut's 24 points in the first half, against bewildered Friars Point High. Earlier in the week, he scored 78 points in one game...
...been that way all season. In 13 of the 14 games that Walnut had won, Max's height had dwarfed all competition in Mississippi basketball. Max ("Shorty") Palmer was six inches taller than the tallest known college basketballer (Boston College's 7 ft. 1 in. Elmore Morgenthaler). An average student, he is physically clumsy and slow-but that didn't matter. College scouts were on his trail. The University of Arkansas seemed to have the inside track. Until two weeks ago, he played in stocking feet, or leather shoes. Arkansas won his friendship by finding two pairs...