Word: surer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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González was unimpressed. Now, more than ever, the country needed the $175,000,000 Argentine credit promised in the treaty for public works and industrialization. And González was even surer, after the year's events, that a revitalized Chile could repay the money later without losing her independence. But what prompted him to send his treaty to Congress last week was his strong new political position. A year ago he ruled with Communist support. Now he had ditched the Commies, won other friends in Congress. Yet as champions of cheap food for the masses...
November nostrum for the Crimson appears to be the short flat or up-the-middle passes. Kenary to end Red Hill, which, when Kenary was at left halfback, usually registered a long toss, will now mean a shorter but probably surer gain...
Algebra at Five. Today, in a faded yellow-brick-and-plaster house in Adyar, Maria Montessori is hard at work. She lectures in Italian two or three times a week; Mario translates into English for her. She is surer than ever of one thing: "The child is capable of achieving culture at an age hitherto unsuspected." She now teaches arithmetic at 3½, algebra at five, and finds that eight-year-olds learn algebra quicker than 14-year-olds, for they consider it a game, instead of something to dread. An 18-month-old child, she says, is "perhaps happiest...
Never any love was surer...
...free educations at 52 civilian colleges and universities and a shot at regular, lifetime Navy commissions. Admiral Holloway predicts that for the next few years regular commissions will be split roughly 50-50 between Academy and Holloway Plan graduates. But he still believes that the Annapolis way is a surer-if tougher-way of making a career out of the Navy...