Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the world doughty little publications are informing their communities of the life around them, in many cases converting the illiterate to literacy in the process. One such journal turned up on my desk this week: Issue No. 259 of the Loma Weekly, a Mimeographed paper that serves the natives of the mud-hut village of Wozi (estimated population: 250) in the dense, equatorial rain forest of Liberia. Reading it in New York, some 5,000 miles away, I found Wozi's news lively, to say the least...
Last week's combine makes it a giant. As operator and controlling owner (more than 50%) of Kermac Nuclear Fuels Inc., the company will pool the reserves of two other companies with its own into one big combine, process the ore, split the profits on a pro-rata basis...
Warmth & Pressure. Rex's secret is surely neither intellectual nor physical. Fellow Actor Orson Welles thinks it comes down to "chic-style without pressure." But stars of Harrison's brilliance are formed, like diamonds, under great pressure. As with diamonds, the process takes time-and warmth. "Rex himself must be a pretty nice guy," Charles Laughton argues, "or he couldn't give out the warmth and delight in life and humanity he does every night. You can't fake that...
Next afternoon Johnson took a third in the hurdles. Then, in the process of taking first place in the discus throw, he reinjured his left knee. Even so, he placed second in the pole vault, third in the javelin throw. But he dropped far back in the grinding 1,500-meter run. Though he had failed to break his own world's record, Johnson's final total of 7,754 points made him an easy first. Behind him, Navy's Milt Campbell scored 7,555, the Rev. Bob Richards 7,054. For the first time in history...
...algebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc.) that tend to make math seem a series of separate and unattached compartments. "Frequently," says Beberman, "our students do not know whether they are doing geometry or algebra at any given point.'' But the basic intent is to reveal math as a "creative process in which we want our students to participate." Instead of telling students how to solve equations, "we just explain to them what the root of an equation is and then give them 30 pages of problems and tell them to go ahead and solve them any way they can-until...