Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilot." According to the United Press Father Feeney denounced the excerpts as having been edited so as to detract from his side of the argument and build up the Archbishop's position. He was reported by the UP to have refused to go to the Chancery to read the full text of the letter and to have denied admittance to the priest the Archbishop sent to St. Benedict's to transmit the letter...
Jesse found that if he cut up his big calendar and pasted the numbers on bits of cardboard, he could teach beginners to read and count while pretending to be playing a game. He taught them "how to measure a field and figure the number of acres, how to figure the number of bushels in a wagon bed [or a] corn bin." Soon farmers from all over the valley, and from Chicken Creek and Unknown, too, began asking his pupils to measure their fields and count their bushels for them...
...them we'd starve to death in no time." Albright, known in the trade as the "corn salesman," once heard a bookseller complain to a publisher that nothing was being published for the thinking man. Said Albright: "I told them that the average man . . . couldn't read anything but corn and what we needed was more corn...
...General Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. But Hap Arnold's military life spans the whole life of military aviation, and no one now living can speak with more authority about the growth of air power. Global Mission is a big, gabby book, easygoing and easy to read. For any reader trying to assemble the rounded story of World War II, it is one of the very few essential books written so far. For any student of aviation it is a clear must...
...typical command, of which the drum will hold 4000 in sequence, might read: "select the Number in A-1 and add to it the Number in B-2 and put the sum in C-3." Such a command can be given and the work accomplished by the computing section of the machine every four thousandth of a second...