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Word: pushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban sophistication, the most cogent economic fact of Canada today is the push into pioneer land, where technology is taking on nature to create a new frontier unlike anything ever seen before (TIME cover, Sept. 30, 1966). With vast areas as yet unexplored, only a fraction of the returns are in. The potash finds in Saskatchewan and oil reserves in Alberta are estimated to be equal to all those known in the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CANADA DISCOVERS ITSELF | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...from Moscow had indicated that Soyuz would be joined in orbit by another spacecraft carrying several men and that the two ships would attempt to rendezvous, dock, exchange crews and set up an orbiting space station. There was speculation that the second ship had a restartable engine that would push the joined ships as far out as 50,000 miles-a first step toward a flight later this year in which a manned Russian ship would circumnavigate the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Cosmonaut | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...often happens that a student will push himself along at 2000 words per minute on the final test, following instructions and confident that his low score on the following comprehension test will prove what he is sure of-that he has not learned to read dynamically. Then a strange thing will happen. He will score well on the comprehension test in spite of understanding little of what he read...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Evelyn Wood: Most Just Waste The Money | 5/3/1967 | See Source »

...weeks are spent on steps one and two and the desired result is the beginning of the end of subvocalization. This is accomplished by the "push-up" drill, probably the most important technique developed by Evelyn Wood. The student reads for one minute using step one and advancing at an easy rate. He adds one page and reads them in the same amount of time. A second, third, fourth and fifth page is added in the same way before the reader is once again given the original number of pages to read in one minute's time. This technique keeps...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Evelyn's Game: Any Number Can Play | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...base paths with Danny Saunders, intense, blue-eyed and a sort of Jewish Frank Merriwell. Danny deliberately slams a line drive into Reuven's glasses, Precipitating a 58-page hospital sequence, during which the two boys' enmity grows toward friendship even as the Allies invade France and push out of Saint-L6 toward the Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Chicken Soup | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

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