Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial support can be expanded and the program made selfperpetuating, the Harvard Undergraduate Teachers could be a very effective antidote to the Boston area teaching probrem--as well as an interesting "extra-curricular" for energetic students.ROSSITER AND NICHOLS SUGGEST Gone With the Wind and Uncle Tom's Cabin to a Brazilian sophomore at Newton interested in the American Civil War. The HUT's have just explained "abolitionism...
With that terse exchange in the flag cabin of the heavy cruiser Baltimore at Pearl Harbor in July 1944, the great and fateful campaign for the recapture of the Philippines was set in motion. By campaign's end, whatever chance Japan had of winning the war in the Pacific was irrevocably lost. The battle for the Gulf of Leyte decisively shifted the fortunes of war, and it is this action that dominates the twelfth volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's massively conceived and brilliantly executed account of U.S. naval operations in World War II (to run through...
...parents made their decision. George Wolfe, 54, a storekeeper for the Camas Prairie Railroad, packed his family off to a log cabin on an abandoned gold-mining claim in the isolated, rugged Salmon River Canyon, 80 miles from the nearest high school, eight miles by rubber raft from the nearest road. There Reho Wolfe, who once attended a normal school, set up a school-within-a-home, arranged for texts, lessons and tests through a correspondence course. Wolfe, a high school graduate, who has had music training, continued his job in Lewiston, commuted to the cabin on weekends, when...
...came an unexpected defense. Asked MacGregor: "May a person of school age no longer reside in a locality of his own choosing unless it is within walking distance of a school or is served by a school bus?" If the children could not get to school from a log cabin many miles away, "must the sanctity of the home be invaded?" No, MacGregor insisted. And the board reluctantly agreed to drop the charges...
...Kozol is talking the language always learned and sometimes spoken by young people who don't get into bed often enough. He speaks quickly, with excitement and wonder, and it takes you no time at all to get from the snugness of a snow-dusted Maine cabin to the open opulence of a swank hotel in Barcelona...