Word: spruces
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...separate flights from the wilds to Fairbanks while steering his single-engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...
Rosenthal began his test in the spring of 1964. With the permission of the principal of San Francisco's Spruce School, where students are divided into three "tracks"--fast, medium and slow--he gave an IQ test to all students in the school's kindergarten and first grades...
...Spruce School has a large Mexican enrollment, and this provided an interesting sidelight. Among the "spurter" Mexican boys with faces that loked Anglo-Saxon showed higher gains than those with more identifiably Mexican faces...
Rosenthal has conducted similar experiments at elementary schools in a Massachusetts suburb and a middleclass town in Ohio. Although Analysis of these two tests has not been completed, the results have not clearly corroborated the Spruce School findings...
Republican Fanning, who rose from copy boy to managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle before moving to a series of top editorial posts with Field Enterprises in 1955, plans to spruce up the News's front page and to expand its coverage of the "Lower 48" when he takes over in September. Since its founding in 1946, the paper has been politically independent-and adventurous enough to have become embroiled in seven libel suits. By keeping it that way, Fanning hopes to catch up some day with Anchorage's afternoon Times, whose circulation of 22,000 makes...