Word: algebraical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mathematics, the schoolboy's horror, is perking up again after a long sabbatical in the educational doghouse. During the '30s the proportion of high-school pupils taking math dropped a third in six years, and many an educator dismissed algebra, to the vast relief of pupils, as a useless subject. But last week there were signs aplenty that U.S. schools were returning to the view that there is much to be said for the third...
...Adjustment," as Salmen and his staff define it, is a broad term. At this particular time of year, it usually refers to students who have had poor preparation. Some haven't had a complete enough background in algebra to hold them above water in Physics C others have too scanty a knowledge of French to carry them through the first weeks of French E. Such cases can usually be bandled in an average of under four hours...
...order to qualify as a cadet, candidates must be not less than 18 nor more than 25 years of age on January 1, 1942, must satisfy rigid physical requirements, and must pass a written examination in algebra, plane geometry and physics...
Twenty to twenty-six years old; single; two years of college with work in algebra, plane geometry and plane trigonometry three are all required of the student who would take this navigation training course. But the physical standards are not as exacting as those required of either pilots or bombardiers you can get by if your eyes are twenty-forty without glasses and twenty-twenty with...
...have dreamed of a Pan-American highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...