Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silver medal in the special slalom at Innsbruck in 1964. Austria's Gerhard Nenning, 27, is going into the Olympics with two straight major downhill victories behind him; Switzerland's Du-meng Giovanoli, 24, and Edi Bruggmann, 24, have both defeated Jean-Claude twice in pre-Olympic slaloms. Yet those were merely warmups. For the French, the Olympics are everything, and they remain totally confident in Killy. President de Gaulle is expected to attend the award ceremony following the special slalom race-so that he can personally hand Jean-Claude his third gold medal of the games...
...there has been one steady trend at Harvard College in recent years, it has been the increase in academic specialization. Pre-professionalism has gone hand in hand with Harvard's policy of expanding its graduate schools in order to train more instructors. It is admirable that Harvard should produce more teachers, and it is understandable (although not particularly beneficial to socety as a whole) that professors wish to train them to perpetuate their own disciplines and ethics among students. But the large majority of undergraduates and graduate students do not end up as teachers, and the Faculty should be more...
Yale bopped Brown twice already, handily. The Elis are 9-4, including one surprising victory over pre-season Ivy co-favorite Cornell. Among the four losses is a 100-72 shellacking from nationally ranked Columbia...
...meaningful conclusions, researchers must first find a comparable group of children who have not been exposed to TV; but alas, in the U.S. there is no such group. What studies have been made are largely peripheral. Yes, Video Boy devotes half an hour less to playtime than did the pre-TV child. No, TV does not discourage reading, but if anything, stimulates it. Yes, TV does help develop such prereading skills as scanning from left to right. No, normal viewing does not impair eyesight. Yes, TV has replaced reading and storytelling sessions with the parent. No, TV has no significant...
...knows, for example, the finer points of docking in outer space, can distinguish Bach from Bartok, and is a storehouse of such miscellany as the fact that whales' backs get sunburned and peel. When he enters school, his vocabulary will be at least one year ahead of the pre-TV child. On the nursery-type show Romper Room, a teacher once asked her toddlers if anyone could think of a word beginning with u. "Ubiquitous," piped a kindergartner...