Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 21 I read that Superintendent Wegner [of Roslyn, L. I., whose "progressive" system of education was recently favorably reviewed by the New York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England in the time of Charles Dickens. In Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster, Squeers, gave the verb "weed" to be spelled, defined and conjugated by the class and then sent them out to weed the garden...
...even Wolfe, if his dense tomes are read...
...read your letters, and I'm sure you'll find...
...widely read and nationally known newspaper columnist, Jones is one of the youngest sports editors in the business. He entered big-time journalism in 1928, after having served successfully as Managing Editor and President of the CRIMSON. His rise in less than 10 years from cub reporter to sports editor of one of the largest dailies in this part of the country is considered meteoric in newspaper circles...
...Physics" costs fifty cents more than that amount and is worth to the reader a king's ransom, if there could be valued in money the stimulation and pleasure of a journey in pure reason toward an understanding of matter and space. It is not an easy book to read. Though mathematical formulae are completely left out and the words are short and there are many illustrations and metaphors, the subject matter is inherently difficult. Einstein, of course, can be expected to understand his own theory more clearly than any of his popularizers, and much more clearly than they...