Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the news board seeks no assistance at this time. Later in the year it will start trials, open to Freshmen only...
...Jersey City, all four members of an election board were arrested when a deputy superintendent of elections walked into the Sixth District, Fifth Ward polling place, ten minutes before it closed, asked to see the tally sheets, found they had already been marked...
Three summers ago a group of eleven serious thinkers-among them, Robert S. Lynd (Middletown) and Margaret Mead (Sex & Temperament)-dismayed by the insecurity, the bewilderment, the crimes of the younger generation, gathered at Hanover, N. H., under the sponsorship of the General Education Board to consider what needed to be done to restore reason and balance to modern juvenile life. They had learned that to the usual perplexities of adolescents in all times there had been added since the War new worries accompanying profound changes in the structure and tempo of society...
...either surprisingly ignorant or surprisingly well versed in things that aren't so," the Hanover conferees agreed something must be done, turned over their sombre data to a Commission on Human Relations subsequently set up by the Progressive Education Association and financed by the Rockefeller General Education Board, to provide for Youth, parents and teachers the facts of modern life that they needed to solve contemporary problems. This sizable order was undertaken by a group of educators, writers and scientists who prepared a series of nine books with such titles as Society & Family Living, Do Adolescents Need Parents?, Literature...
That night, in the middle of a delightful country club dance, the order came for all members of the "Colorado" to board ship and look for the lost aviators. Chase and Hutchins were very sorry this time but were unable to go on dancing...