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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today in a typical Progressive school, children call their teachers by their first names, treat them as friends instead of masters. In place of fixed desks and seats are chairs, workbenches. Instead of textbooks, pupils use newspapers, magazines, reference books, observation trips. Instead of studying subjects in separate capsules, as reading, spelling, arithmetic, they have projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progressives' Progress | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Most other big Nazis rant offensively, but not tiny, obese Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk, whom Germans call the "gentlest of all the Nazis." He returned quietly to Berlin last week from a tour of the Balkans on which he notably overbid the British and French in extending credits-i.e., economic bribes for political favors. And the day after he got back, Poland thankfully accepted a German credit of 60,000,000 marks and, according to reports, Greece was put down by the German Economics Ministry for a credit of 100,000,000 marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Funk's Finance | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...call it peace and kill the women and the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Raid | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...went to 38-year-old Fred Jacoby Jr. Son of an outboard body builder (Jacoby Flyaway), Driver Jacoby has no peer among the fast-growing fraternity of rough riders who spend their summers bumping around U. S. waterways, kneeling in little, flat-bottomed boats they call flying shingles-with life preservers round their necks and a yapping whine in their ears. Professional Jacoby's total of 25,897 points† (in 20 regattas) this season was 10,000 more than his nearest rival (amateur or professional), and his feat of outscoring all other drivers this year for the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flying Shingles | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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