Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer and fall babies do better in school, probably because they have a general health advantage. Children taught two languages from the start are handicapped in both. Although IQ scores partly reflect cultural influence, and to that degree can be raised by training, they usually remain quite stable after the age of six or seven. Intelligence is mostly inherited; the problem is spurring a child to use all he has. - Highly creative work is produced early in life-typically...
...more typical complaint was that such matters do not belong in TIME. We believe that TIME must reflect existence as it really is. Our cover painting was indeed provocative, to match a provocative subject. We could have chosen an abstract symbol or a work by a long-dead master; but TIME was interested not in symbolism but in reality, not in the past but in the present. And so with the story itself. The majority of our readers seem to have appreciated the usefulness of bringing together in one article the evidence of the present crisis in values, which threatens...
President Johnson last week sent two of his promised special messages to Congress. After the Johnson manner, the messages, on housing and agriculture, offered much for many, yet managed to reflect the President's own carefully drawn image of frugality...
...week was seared with rockets. The U.S. communications satellite, Echo II, expanded its aluminum skin and made ready to reflect messages from space. Saturn 5, boosting the biggest payload man has ever lofted into orbit, shot into the vast blue reaches above Cape Kennedy. Soon after, Ranger 6 arced on a graceful, curving course toward the moon. From a secret launching pad, half the world away, Soviet scientists fired a missile that spewed out two separate satellites. The variety of the shots was as impressive as the number, and the infinite distances of the universe seemed to shrink perceptibly...
When you get home, you will want carefully to roast the seeds on any metal tray, if necessary in the bottom of a tea pot. But even as you walk you may reflect that not for nothing is the hero of Spanish romance, the center of a thousand battles, legends and dramas, the perpetual inspiration to duty and right, that transcendent entity known as El Seed...