Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whitby School last week, the children, uninterrupted by any "rest" bell, worked happily, rarely disturbed one another, automatically tidied up after each task. To learn the continents, three-year-olds used special jigsaw puzzles. To strengthen muscles for early writing, they traced complex metal plates that also introduced formal geometrical shapes. To practice the alphabet, one tot used big cards with the letters pasted on in sandpaper that he could feel. Four-year-olds used cut-out letters to spell the names of animals in pictures; many wrote the names, and several five-year-olds sat quietly reading books...
...like yearbooks. Several hours wasted with 325, the latest product of Harvard Yearbook Publications, only strengthen this conviction. These comments cannot hurt Yearbook sales, most of which have already taken place and will take place again next year no matter what the CRIMSON reviewer thinks, so I might as well say frankly that 325 enjoys all the weaknesses that yearbooks generally share, along with a few of its very...
...contention that such a move is arbitrary, uncalled for, and a disservice to the American public,"' Young & Rubicam President George Gribbin complained patriotically in a telegram to ABC Head Oliver Treyz. Treyz wired back that the change was, too, in the public interest, because it strengthened the economy of the local station. It will also strengthen ABC's economy through the five stations it owns...
...prime aims of the new system is to strengthen the present freshman advisory system, noted Dean von Stade, who was also present at the discussion. "It will provide machinery for gently and easily helping students with difficulties." He added, however that the new plan was "not an attempt to go around and take pulses and temperatures of freshmen. They will still have to seek advice on their own initiative...
After her disastrous defeat by the Persians in Egypt in 454, Athens moved to strengthen her control over her allies in the Delian League. Meiggs pointed to the importance of the transfer of the League's funds from Delos to Athens, since it enabled the Athenians to draw directly on the money to increase their power...