Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...there are also game legs, big game, and being game to try. Draw is a common word: but there are drawing pictures, drawing water, drawing & quartering, and fighting to a draw. Fifteen years ago, big, black-haired Psychologist Irving Lorge of Columbia University's Teachers College decided to count the meanings of the most common English words, then try to determine which meanings a beginner should learn first...
...Year on G. Irving Lorge wanted to go beyond his work with Thorndike. "If we merely count words," said he, "we are not counting what is being communicated -the sense." He began his own counting, personally spent more than a year working on the letter G. Under his direction, 270 other scholars, who had landed on WPA projects during the depression, began doing the same for A to Z. They churned through such works as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Uncle Wiggily books, Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Girl Scout Handbook. Last week, 15 years...
Harvard, with a five and five record, will probably count on feeding its high-scoring forward John Rockwell--203 points in ten games. Gerry Murphy, who will start at one of the guard positions, also has compiled an excellent average--he ranks third in the country in foul shooting with a percentage...
Thrice-married Count Alfred de Marigny, 39, acquitted in 1943 of the sensational Bahamas murder of his father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, announced a new business venture in Hollywood. The count, whose wife, Nancy Oakes, got an annulment of their marriage last October, said that he plans to be a branch manager of a matrimonial agency...
Until this week the Russian papers had been known to few. If the facts they contain had been properly publicized, a lot of spy chasing and pointless orating might have been avoided. The AEC might also have persuaded millions of Americans not to count on a "secret" which the whole scientific world knew...