Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers' clubs, noncoms' clubs, hobby shops, etc. It seems to me that every bureau in Washington is using the Sputniks as an excuse for a return to the big spending that, only a year ago, we seemed to have defeated. One good place to start economizing would be to cease building missiles which are almost duplicates of one another...
...never start writing with any 'theme' in mind," says Playwright Inge (rhymes with hinge). "I find my themes only as the characters and the situation develop...
Last May the McCormicks invited 20 parents of precocious children to a meeting, suggested that they band together to start a school of their own for pupils with IQs of 135 or over. They picked the name Adastra, which Alma McCormick loosely translates as "the sky's the limit." They leased a two-story house on Division Street, persuaded fathers to donate equipment and mothers to help with the secretarial work, finally opened last fall with 13 children aged 3½ to nine. By last week the McCormicks had enough children on their waiting list to assure them...
...Though the level of secondary school mathematics and science is high, teaching in general is unimaginative and suffocating. "The accounts of many German students who studied in the Soviet Union after the war agree in stating that, in a typical class lesson, the teacher would start the class by calling on two or three students to repeat the material of the previous lesson almost verbatim, and that the second half of the hour would be occupied by the teacher delivering the next section of the textbook, again following the text almost or actually verbatim...
...hotels and barrooms of Anchorage, Alaska, oilmen from 25 U.S. companies waited anxiously last week for word from Washington, D.C. that would start the greatest northern land rush since the Klondike gold strike. They had swarmed to Anchorage by the score this fall after Richfield Oil Corp. made Alaska's first big oil find in the nearby Kenai national game preserve (see map). So promising was the well (900 bbl. a day) that the companies are prepared to sink $100 million into the search for more. If they are just moderately successful, they will invest another $200 million...