Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sample lyrics: "To the hills of North Carolina/ Where the Smokies dot the land/ God sent a new boy baby/ And he called him Billy Graham"). Fourteen years ago, McEnery also achieved some slight notoriety by handcuffing himself to a piano and writing 52 original songs in eight hours without getting up. When the plight of Pilot Powers swam into McEnery's vision, he waited, he says, to be sure that Powers was "a real American hero" and not "a turncoat or something like that," then quickly ground out the lyrics and set them to the music of There...
...More (52%) graduated from Harvard with honors than without. The main upsurge was in magna cum laude degrees (179) and cum laudes (300), which were won by 48% of the graduating class...
...institute is slim, earnest Schoolteacher Evelyn Nielsen Wood, 51, who first caught the fast-reading bug 15 years ago when she handed a master's-degree term paper to her speech professor at the University of Utah. He flipped the 80 pages once-and marked the paper without missing a detail. His untrained speed: 6,000 w.p.m. Teacher Wood found 50 other such prodigies, including housewives and a sheepherder. All had common characteristics: they read whole paragraphs at a time, remembered everything. Concluded Teacher Wood: "Speed is not most important, but only through speed do you get good comprehension...
...Brooklyn research team, Dr. Leo Gitman reported on a careful scientific study of oldsters, in which one group received procaine injections, and another got exactly the same food and care, but without the procaine injections. The doctor could find no difference that could be unequivocally attributed to the procaine. Dr. Gitman sat down to a long roar of applause...
...demand for exorcism has become so prevalent that churchmen are seriously concerned. Only last month, the House of Laity (which, along with the House of Bishops and the House of Clergy, makes up The National Assembly of the Church of England) requested vicars and curates to refrain from exorcism without the express consent of their bishops...