Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agers who bristle to the defense of their rock-'n'-roll idols upon the slightest criticism from adults will doubtless be able to dream up some excuse for the deplorable antics of our latest good-will ambassador, Jerry Lee Lewis. I wonder how many of them, after reading your story, bothered to turn to the Education section and read how Pat Boone, a really good singer, can also win fame (and a degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia) and still be a nice guy with a spotless personal life...
...June 9 article "Unlucky Ship" has been read throughout our ship, the U.S.S. Silverstein DE-534. It is our opinion that you have done our ship and our skipper a great injustice especially for the phrase "the Bad Ship Silverstein." The Silverstein is the best ship in the U.S. Navy, and the crew is proud to serve...
Leaders & Laggards. The indexes use statistics from 21 different areas that cover the important segments of the nation's economy-production, employment, income, prices, etc. When all statistics are moving up, the diffusion indexes read 100. When all are moving down, the indexes are zero. If half are moving up and half down, the indexes are 50. When the indexes drop below 50, it means the economy is contracting; when they rise above 50, the economy is expanding. The basic 21 are broken down into three groups called 1) the Leading Series, 2) the Coincident Series...
Record. In Dayton, called upon to read the minutes of the last meeting of the Third Street Baptist Church's Sunshine Circle for Young People, substitute Secretary Sharon Parker stood up, said "20 minutes, six seconds," sat down...
This book is a penance to read, redeemed from sheer horror only by a few episodes, such as the Jewish tailors working on a German army order and sewing pockets upside down on uniforms, or the story of the men who argued that the Israelites' true revenge was to forgive their enemies. Above all, there is the bravery of Emmanuel Ringelblum, who continued to set down the terrible truth until, when there seemed almost no one left to kill, he was executed with his wife...