Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Beebe, explorer, author...
...prompt caller was Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, co-author of the late McNary-Haugen bill. He wanted to let bygones be bygones, including the famed equalization fee. Not so Representative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, the other half of the team. He sulked in his tent...
...survey of progressive education in American public schools." It is written by Carleton Washburne, the superintendent of the public school system in Winnetka, Illinois, who has transformed his schools into an educational laboratory; and by Myron M. Stearns, a graduate of Stanford University and a magazine author of note. The collaboration is a fortunate one, the joint product being both instructive and entertaining, something which cannot be said of the majority of the many books now being written on the subject of secondary education...
Harriet M. Johnson's almost unique 'Children in the Nursery School" is one of the latest analyzations of the youthful educational problem. It is published by The John Day Company and is a clear and practical presentation of the workings of an experimental school. The Nursery School the author describes was organized in 1919 by The Bureau of Educational Experiments. In view of the new realization of the first three years of childhood and the attendant establishment of nursery schools throughout America, the problem dealt with will have a wide interest in educational circles...
...most profound book yet written by any American woman" may condone Miss Newman's latest tour de force as one of the minor sins of genius. To the rest of the public, including this reader, however, this new novel is as unreadable as the former one; the author has possibly proved that dead lovers are faithful lovers but in the process she has once more given evidence that all sentences are not intelligible sentences, that an esoteric style is frequently an abominable style, and that dull books are bad books...