Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good way to teach a child to read was first to snag his interest. They produced readers related to a child's own experiences, and in the 20th century, they started to control the number of words to be introduced. They argued about the merits of oral and silent reading; they also began to champion the idea of teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back in the '30s, some educators decided that phonics...
...balloting brought more deadlock, and finally Yugoslavia agreed, if elected, to resign from the Council after one year in the Philippines' favor. With that understanding, the delegates elected the Yugoslavs by a decisive 43 out of 70 votes. That done, delegates stood up for a traditional minute of silent "prayer or meditation" and then, to the bang of Senor Maza's gavel, scurried home. It had been a contentious, tiring 13 weeks for all. and particularly for Assembly President Maza, who was also besieged by an increasing round of diplomatic teas, dinners and cocktail parties. "You have...
...Lubbock, Texas one afternoon this month, 17 teenagers gravely went through a ritual familiar to Boy Scouts the world over. After chorusing the Scout oath (". . . I will do my best ... to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight"), they settled down to an afternoon of studying the silent signals used on hikes. What distinguished the meeting was the fact that few of the boys were likely to put into practice what they learned in the classroom: they were all members of a troop of physically and mentally handicapped Scouts...
...contempt as he shook his carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors like a peasant swigging new May wine, then rush off to the Montmartre rooms that he shared with his brother to try out the new theories in dazzling flower paintings...
...Sunday round of golf, now only nod perfunctorily when they bump into the G.M. crowd at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club. G.M. blames Ford for giving in last summer to the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther on the guaranteed annual wage. Fordmen blame G.M. for keeping silent while Reuther turned on Ford first...