Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, fearing that intolerance is spreading over the world so rapidly that little time is left to head it off, New York City's Board of Education decided to try a short cut, ordered tolerant Superintendent Harold George Campbell to begin teaching tolerance at once. To the principals of the city's 1,000 schools, Superintendent Campbell promptly sent an order to teach tolerance to the city's 1,250,000 school children twice each month. Principals are to hold school assemblies describing the contributions of all races and nationalities...
...Club. But at school life was less smooth. Egged on by some still resentful parents, rowdy boys cut Principal Attig's telephone wires, strewed his papers, fired his wastebasket. unhinged doors. All this Principal Attig bore patiently. He cracked no heads, said nothing to parents or school board, tried to solve his problem alone. He also refused a better job. remarking grimly: "I must stay and give Oswego the educational program it is worthy...
When at last the Examiner comes on board to judge them, the audience settles back to relish the play's meatiest, juiciest moments. But they are also its weakest: the inquisitor is too whimsically conceived, vice is too glibly punished, virtue too sentimentally recompensed. Perhaps a better artist (though a less canny storyteller) would have rung down his curtain as his characters, in bewilderment and trepidation, reached the threshold of their eternal home. It takes at least a Dante to draw a convincing diagram of Hell...
...Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction, Sir Richard Gregory will have no successor. Henceforth the editorial affairs of Nature will be managed by a board...
First the railroads asked for a 15% freight-rate rise. ICC said 5.3% was enough. Then they asked for a 15% wage cut. Franklin Roosevelt's Railway Fact-Finding Board said No. This left the railroads, stretched between the engine of rising costs and the caboose of lagging traffic, with no recourse but legislative aid. So Mr. Roosevelt asked three railroad officials and three railroad labor officers to prepare proposals for Congress...