Word: 1940s
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...winning schools, which will split a $10,000 prize, took very different approaches. The third- and fourth-graders of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California, studied American social history in the 1940s by making online contact with people who lived through the period and asking them some sharp and provocative questions. (Example: "How did you feel about Eleanor Roosevelt, and does it compare to what you think of Hillary Clinton...
...have had a lot of success," Wooden said to his old friend Hank Iba who had won two championships in the 1940s at the helm of Oklahoma State), "but I Just don't know if I'll ever win a championship at UCLA." Wooden, who started coaching at UCLA n 1946, would go on to win 10 of 12 championships from 1964 through...
...calculus-reform movement," who advocate learning through technology, graphing calculators are to calculus students what microwave ovens are to popcorn lovers; once the device is used, there is no going back. "If you don't use this technology, then you're really teaching as if you were in the 1940s," says Judith Broadwin, an A.P. math teacher at Jericho High School in New York. "The few people who object to this do so because they're afraid...
Once a common sight along Southern highways, chain gangs fell victim to a reform movement that reached its zenith with the 1932 film exposa I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. By the late 1940s, the gangs were well on their way to joining stocks and public floggings in penological limbo. Thus there was little in the way of models when Alabama Governor Fob James decided last year to revive the practice. "We started from scratch," says Limestone warden Ralph Hooks, pointing proudly to a new, specially designed toilet that allows the men to relieve themselves in privacy while...
...pianist, historian, adventurer, rose gardener and passionate journalist -- was above all a man who had to write. In addition to his prodigious work during two decades as a writer and editor at TIME, Otto wrote 14 books on subjects ranging from Berlin in the 1920s to Hollywood in the 1940s to the End of the World-to say nothing of the nine children's books he co-authored with his wife Priscilla, with whom he had five children of his own. When Otto died of cancer last week at age 66, he had just completed a monumental study...