Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is Better Learning Through Current Materials (Stanford University Press, $3), written by members of the California Council on Improvement of Instruction and edited by Lucien Kinney and Katharine Dresden. (The Saturday Review of Literature not long ago listed it as one of the important educational books...
...Better Learning reports on a project which has been in the works for four years: exposing secondary school pupils to current materials, a phrase which educators use to describe magazines, newspapers, radio recordings, and kindred study helps-as distinguished from textbooks. The book compares the progress of these students with similar groups which made little or no use of current materials...
...three years that T have used current materials, I have sent out my classes feeling they were better prepared for factual, functional understanding of science in the world they would meet than any other classes I have...
...kind can be completely invulnerable"). The Air Force, Vandenberg said, held only that the B-36 could get through in sufficient numbers to deliver an initial atomic blow; the threat alone "serves to divert a great portion of any nation's effort to its internal defense." There were better planes than the B-36 on the drawing board and in the works, but until they were ready, the B-36 remained the best bomber in being, in a year of crisis...
...rolled out a bill based on the Democratic Party platform-a sliding scale of generous supports, ranging from 90% of parity down to 75%, depending on the size of U.S. harvests. But North Dakota's Republican Young and Georgia's Democrat Dick Russell were out to do better by the farmers. They proposed an amendment that would keep price supports on basic crops fixed at the flat 90% of parity which had been set up to increase production in time of war, and which the House had already voted to continue for another year. Said Georgia...