Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skip, Jump. With minor local variations, the basic program is the same in all cities practicing integration. In Detroit, for instance, the school system sends out special counselors to help parents with their new blind babies. At three or four, the children go to a preprimary school, where they learn to run, hop, skip, play at sand tables and even fingerpaint. Later, they learn to read and write in Braille and to use a typewriter. By the sixth or seventh grade, they are ready to take their place in normal classes...
There have been many bad nature films. Often they are fragmentary and exclusively "informative." As often they are too much afflicted with the story line that some producer has decided to impose upon "nature." Rarely does a full length nature film skip both these pitfalls as successfully as Secrets of the Reef...
Freshmen are studying in Lamont, upperclassmen will be searching reading lists for topics to skip, and professors are beginning to mention cryptic minor points--all in preparation for inevitable examinations...
Eleven former members of the Class of '60 have won sophomore standing and will skip their freshman year under the Advanced Standing Program which this year was opened for the first time to all Harvard applicants. The eleven new sophomores graduated from Exeter, Andover, Western Reserve and Horace Mann...
...strength by carrying some farm states against the formidable Republican team. He will still be in the Senate, and, having run on the national ticket, may be known as a team player instead of a loner. He faces a 1960 campaign for reelection, and may therefore have to skip his quadrennial fight for the presidential nomination. But he is relatively young, and there are other years and other elections. The chances are good that Iowa farmers, New Hampshire lumberjacks and California avocado growers will some day be confronted again by the tall man with the outstretched right hand...