Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S statement that John Dewey's progressive education has led to an emphasis on creative thinking in our public schools is suffering from too great a desire to make his birthday happy. His ideas have led to the very opposite. The present American high-school student is an intellectual dolt who thinks that knowledge is gained through memorizing facts...
...this nation, and for the welfare of the world." Term Indefinite. Then Harry Truman went back to Blair House, where he stayed awake until 11 o'clock listening to the late returns which nailed down the Demo cratic victories. Next day he confided to guests at a 64th birthday party for Secretary Charlie Ross (the prize gift: an imperial gallon of Scotch from White House reporters) that the election had been a wonderful satisfaction and that he had received even more messages of congratulation than he had after his own triumph a year...
After a month's visit in the U.S., Canada and Britain, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived back home just in time to celebrate his 60th birthday. Cheering crowds greeted him at the airport and along the route to a huge public meeting in Bombay, where he accepted from admiring countrymen a $30,000 trinket: a foot-long miniature of the Asoka Pillar (whose crest is the Great Seal of India), made of gold and twinkling with 60 diamonds...
Prince Charles, quietly celebrating his first birthday at Clarence House, had his accomplishments summed up for him by the British press, which unbent to the point of talking a little baby talk. The royal child weighs 25 Ibs., is tall for his age, has six teeth, already has taken his first steps, and has had his name put down for the Grenadier Guards. Only available quotes-considered adequate by most Britons-as his 40-lb. birthday cake was cut: "Papa...
Last week Cooper Union celebrated its 90th birthday with a big convocation in its historic Great Hall.* Architect Frank Lloyd Wright and RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff were on hand to receive Peter Cooper Medals for their respective services to art and science...