Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whose filly Silver Spoon last week finished a disappointing fifth in the Kentucky Derby...
...aloof and solitary bachelor, who liked to paint, cultivate roses and ponder mathematics, he lived in a strange Paris apartment that consisted of three rooms on three floors. The legends about him spread: that he hypnotized those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished...
...Sword Dancer got out front early and stayed there, had little trouble whipping a good field of three-year-olds over seven furlongs at Louisville's Churchill Downs, became one of the favorites for this week's Kentucky Derby. C. V. Whitney's filly, Silver Spoon, the sentimental Derby favorite, was a disappointing third behind Easy Spur...
Bruner's announcement of his proposal followed the CEP's Wednesday resolution to publically open debate over "spoon-feeding" in the Freshman year. At that time the Committee had discussed, on an exploratory level, the possibility of changing the plan of the Freshman year...
Members questioned whether there is "too much spoon-feeding" in the first year of college, William A. Klemperer '50, professor of Chemistry and a member of the CEP, said yesterday. In addition, the Committee weighed the relative merits of traditional type courses and seminars in awakening students' intellects...