Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This proved useful in the days of expensive dial-up Internet connections because people could connect to a service provider for a few minutes, down-load hundreds of messages and read them without keeping their eyes on the clock...
...Black teachers, black lawyers, black doctors, were told they couldn't read and write well enough to vote," he said...
...wish my parents had been able to read your article on how to make a better student 16 years ago. If they had read it, who knows? I might now have a chance of going to Harvard. ANDY CHI, age 16 Paramus...
...Meeker model to almost 150 schools serving more than 60,000 youngsters. These schools have documented statistically significant increases in academic achievements. By developing intellectual strength and stamina, students increase their mental power and endurance--whether they are learning math, the grammar of English or other languages, how to read music, run a four-cylinder engine, program a computer or balance a ledger. By strengthening our students' thinking abilities today, we can enrich their lives tomorrow. WILLIAM E. BROCK, Chairman Intellectual Development Systems, Inc. Annapolis...
...once overheard boasting to a friend, "I've read War and Peace." So we know Steve Martin is intelligent. Now we know he is intelligent in print. In these comic essays (most from the New Yorker), the voice is often that of the old stand-up Steve: a fellow less cool, less together--and thus funnier--than he thinks he is. Martin takes inspiration from prescription bottles, the Schrodinger's cat paradox and Marlon Brando on Larry King Live. The little gems come at a hefty price--87[cents] each ($1.17 in Canada!)--but are worth it for their expectation...