Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Besides encouraging these kids to go to college we try to give them the tools they'll need to prepare themselves. We teach them reading skills, for instance--how to skim, how to read a science book as opposed to a novel, thinks like that. We also try to get them to read as much as possible outside of school. We have what we call a 'Readers Are Leaders' program. If a student reads six outside books he gets a button, like a Boy Scout merit badge, which says 'Reader'; then if he reads twelve books he gets another badge...
...complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden's ideas; and the entire poem (to commit sacrilege upon a hallowed text) is an admirable illustration of how a banal thought may be garnished with the irregular combinations of fanciful invention, until the product may be read with greatest pleasures of sudden wonder...
...grim Moscow prison, two Americans while away the hours of their lonely confinement. They read Dickens, Thackeray and the Bible; they write letters to their wives. It has been nearly five months since Air Force Lieutenants F. B. Olmstead and John McKone and four companions were shot down in their RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea. The two young officers were captured, brought to Moscow on loudly trumpeted but plainly trumped-up charges of espionage. The body of one fellow airman was returned to the U.S.; the others are listed as missing...
...Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities." He seemed relieved that the interview had been private: "I am quite happy there were no pictures. All sorts of things might have been read into them-odious comparisons made...
...sized pamphlet-Feynman then and there impetuously offered two $1,000 prizes. One was to go to the first person to reduce the information on one page of a book to one twenty-five-thousandth of the linear scale of the original "in such manner that it can be read by an electron microscope"; the other would go to the inventor of an electrically powered rotating motor no bigger than a cube one sixty-fourth of an inch high...