Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summers big story was Colburn. The red-haired freshman captain emeritus followed up his victory in the Oxford-Cambridge meet with a spectacular 1:48 880 in the British nationals in July. Since Colburn was wearing a Harvard jersey in that race, official word has it that that time will be accepted as a university record. And then the next week, in Dublin, Ireland, Colburn upset the former Villanova star, IC4A champion, and Olympic finalist Noel Carroll, running a 1:49.1 half to whip the Irishman in his home town...
...recent teacher training conference, Mrs. Wood emphasized that dynamic reading is nothing like the skimming techniques commonly used in speed reading courses. She said, "Skipping words is dangerous, as you don't know whether or not you have skipped a word which could change the whole meaning of the sentence...
...read five times faster," she pointed out, "not by reading every fifth word, but by reading five times as many words in the same amount of time. Mrs. Wood emphasized that using her technique of rapid reading, every word on the page is noted...
Stigma of Extremism. Word of Morgenthau's Draconian design leaked to the press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered...
...oneness is shattered when Cornelius hands Bruno over to the syndicate. Thereafter, in Chicago and New Yor,k, Cornelius loses his sense of himself and drifts feverishly into grubbing for a living. The girl who ran away from the village with him dies in a fire; word comes that Bruno has been senselessly murdered...