Word: feaster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislature. Governor Cecil Underwood finally made a proposal he never dared make before-a bill to give education an additional $15 million a year in state funds. Reason for his sudden boldness: the shock felt throughout the state by the revelations of a 476-page document called the Feaster Report...
...result of an 18-month survey led by Dean Eston K; Feaster of West Virginia University's College of Education, the report gave West Virginia (pop. 1,900,000) little cause for pride. Even taking into consideration the shocking fact that the state's pupils rank five points below the national average in IQ, youngsters still do not begin to accomplish all they could. In scholastic achievement, ninth-graders are nearly two years behind the national norm. Third-graders lag by half a year, sixth-graders by a year and a quarter, twelfth-graders by nine-tenths...
...Bored. As if the figures were not bad enough, the Feaster Report has some bitter words to say about pupil and teacher attitudes. "Regardless of the types of schools the pupils have come up through, however much interest in learning a very significant proportion (36%) of them had in grades six and eight is completely, or almost completely, gone by the twelfth grade . . . When more than three out of every four seniors in four large high schools call schooling exasperating and tedious, the situation is too serious to be laughed...
...barn one early evening last week, the Brown Swiss cow was calving for the first time. A small knot of anxious men stood near by. Farm Manager Ivan Feaster, becoming alarmed at the slow process of birth, raced off to call a veterinarian. He was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the barn: "It's all right, Ivan," yelled Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, "don't bother to call." In the stall, the mother cow licked the quivering body of her offspring, a fine bull calf, while the President of the U.S. looked on in beaming approval...
...share of the operation to Allen, who switched it to grassland cultivation and replaced the milch cows with Black Angus cattle. Allen employs retired Brigadier General Arthur Nevins, who served Ike as a World War II staff planner, to man age operations; work is done by Farmers Ivan Feaster and Dale Newman...