Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scout. Mother was a writer too, the author of Life in the Iron Mills, a notable piece of pioneer realism; Father was a newsman who from 1893 to 1904 edited the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Neither of them seems to have guessed what was wrong with their son, and indeed the trouble was not obvious. Dick as a boy was anything but a sissy. He loved to fight, hated school. At 18 he entered Lehigh University, promptly failed chemistry but made himself the freshman class hero by taking on twelve sophomores singlehanded. He also became a star athlete-and flunked...
...means that (7) is a - of (1,3,5,7,9). Algebra Speedup. Theintervening 85 frames obviously carried the student a long way. Eigen and Teacher P. Kenneth Komoski did some pioneer math programing at Manhattan's Collegiate School, one of the oldest U.S. boys' schools, and in one case 74 students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term...
Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth was born too late to be a pioneer, but he more than made up for this slip-up on the part of fate. Starting out as a boardinghouse dishwasher at twelve, he ended up as the publisher of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, a multimillionaire in oil, and, by the time he died in 1955, the man most responsible for turning Fort Worth into the city it is. There was so much to Carter's rambunctious, blustering, big-hearted career that one aspect of it tended to be overshadowed: Carter...
...sweeping dragnet out for peasants, truants from their communes, who flock to the cities in hopes of finding a bit of food or more rewarding jobs, or even to commit the supreme crime of selling a few eggs or vegetables on the black market. Children, inculcated by their 'Pioneer' leaders, report at once all suspicious individuals-that is, any unfamiliar face...
...Lord Rothermere and Cecil Harmsworth King are first cousins, both nephews of Lord Northcliffe, an earlier press lord and pioneer in British popular journalism...