Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since she was "in the primer," honey-blonde Mattie Lou Pollard, 14, has gone to the same one-room schoolhouse near Thomaston, Ga. Her teacher at Sunnyside School had work on her hands, taking care of 34 boys & girls, eight grades and all subjects. But somehow the teacher, Mrs. George Phillips, had time to do right by Mattie Lou. Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, with mother and teacher looking on, Mattie Lou won the Scripps-Howard 20th National Spelling Bee, a $500 prize and a trip to New York. Said pleased-as-punch Schoolmarm Phillips...
...cloudy year 1939) will probably fulfill its sponsors' great expectations-both financially and critically. Certainly most Dickensians will love it. And countless people who can't take Dickens are likely to hurry back to that author with a new understanding. Those who don't care about Dickens one way or the other will enjoy it purely as a movie. For Great Expectations is not, in any bad sense, a "classic"; it gives off no unpleasant odor of culture worship. A classic in the living sense of that abused word, it is a beautiful and satisfying movie...
...nine in one day), some 300 rice merchants milled in front of City Hall. They shouted for protection. Mayor K. C. Wu refused it. They called for a gag on Little Happiness. Mayor Wu refused that. Someone cried: "Let's go to Heavenly Voice radio station and take care of Little Happiness ourselves!" Others echoed...
...nation beaten in the war; 2) the French are hampered, as the British are not, by powerful Communist parties at home and in the colonies. The Communists did not create France's colonial troubles, but they aggravate them. Last week, although most Frenchmen did not know or care much about it, a cauldron of hatred was seething over half the French colonial world...
...publicity," Grandma Moses remarked, "that Im too old to care for now." The little old lady has spent almost all her life in peaceful obscurity, farming, and educating her ten children (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). She herself never went to school much, "owing to the cold, and not warm enough clothing." But last week she did try her unschooled hand at an article (in the New York Times Magazine) to explain how she goes about painting. The Times printed it just as she wrote it. Excerpt...