Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since boys are often slower than girls in learning to talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...
...said Austrian Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, when he founded the annual Salzburg music festival (with Director Max Reinhardt, Composer Richard Strauss and others) and dedicated it to the memory of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Last week at Salzburg the founders' intention was well fulfilled...
...twang and a lively spring to his step. Everybody knew him all right: he was James Bryant Conant, the first Harvard president ever to give a course at the summer school. What happens when a president turns professor? By last week, his students agreed that U.S. faculties would do well to have more men like Teacher Conant...
...Flora, scholarly Hans Tütsch of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of Switzerland's biggest newspapers, saw a middle-aged woman carrying a big radio set. As he watched, she moved into room 130, next door. Tütsch later pointed out the woman to well-informed Czech friends, learned that she and her husband were both notorious police spies...
Last week Frenchmen could see many of the products of Gauguin's last eight tormented years, as well as earlier works. The Louvre, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth,* had worked long & hard to collect from all over the world the paintings which best represented the renegade Frenchman's art. Fifteen hundred visitors trooped through the Orangerie every day to inspect the pictures of sable-skinned, expressionless Tahitians lounging somnolently along lush tropical shores, the earlier canvases of rolling Breton hills plotted out in poster-clear patches of color. Critics hailed the exhibit. Said...