Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers such questions as who killed Lincoln? What was the Monroe Doctrine? The teachers' average grade: 67 (below passing). Some believed that Aaron Burr assassinated Lincoln, that George Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence, and that the Civil War lasted ten years. Toughest question: Who married Pocahontas? Most teachers said John Smith. Correct answer: John Rolfe...
Announced last week was a new motion-picture camera so fast that it can take movies at 11,000,000 frames a second-more than ten times as fast as any previous machine. Developed by the University of Rochester's Dr. Brian O'Brien and Gordon G. Milne, the new camera produces a picture that is a ragged blur, but good enough for scientific studies and measurements. A bullet, photographed by this slow-motion technique, travels only an inch in a minute...
...years old, nor did Isolde weigh 250 pounds." The production, unhampered by clumsy stage machinery, had pace. Halasz had picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...
Trials of Tucker. It was a mixed week for Auto Designer Preston Tucker. On the good side, the War Assets Administration extended his temporary lease on part of the huge surplus Dodge plant in Chicago for ten years. On the not-so-good side, Tucker took full-page ads to explain that his rear-engined Tucker '48 would be "coming off production lines in a matter of months"-instead of by Christmas, as he had originally announced. He was also sued for $900,000 by Harold A. Karsten, one of the organizers of Tucker's company (TIME, July...
...butter-fingered goalie and ten other pseudo-athletes from Worcester Polytechnic Institute ganged up to give Coach MacDonald's Varsity soccer team eight goals and its fifth win of the fall season last Saturday on Worcester's rutted playing field. Passing wildly and mostly to Crimson players, the Techmen came closest to scoring a goal when a Harvard fullback accidentally blasted the ball at his own goal...