Word: british
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war Austria provided a remarkably varied program of educational programs, often of an advanced and technical nature. The British Broadcasting Company has programs directed to school classes, with teachers on the spot amplifying the instruction. In Poland, scattered professional men--such as country doctors--were kept in touch with the latest techniques and progress in their fields. In Holland, radio is now used for giving primary education to children of bargemen, who cannot attend a regular school...
...some ways, he thought, U.S. students had the jump on their British counterparts. They are "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply and immediately charmed by everything new . . . They seemed (and this could at times be very exhausting) almost incapable of boredom, or of more than a very surface scepticism...
Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons...
Passport to Pimlico. The British at their comic best, spoofing nationalism, bureaucracy and themselves (TIME...
...scholarships were granted under the will of Cecil John Rhodes, the late British statesman and pioneer to "on-course the . . qualities of distinction...