Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusions of this sort of reasoning can be criticized on two grounds. First, the demand for expressions of opinion only in the class-room is a direct contradiction of a basic tenet of American education--objectivity. Such interpretation in education can be justified only by assuming that all the facts about the war have been proved, which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation...
Meantime, Rumania grew up with its King. The peasants got their land, a prosperous and not too honest business class arose, new schools began to turn out young white-collar workers and these beat a path to get on the bureaucratic payroll of a vast collection of big and little political bosses. Then world depression began to crack down on easy money and easy virtue-then came Hitler...
...concentrate troops along her Dutch border. Dutch soldiers, standing to their arms about 500,000 strong, removed all road signs in frontier districts, to confuse an invader. Bridges and key roads remained mined. At the same time, to release them for work at home, the Government demobilized the Class of 1924. No one really expected a German push, especially if the Dutch canals and rivers do not freeze solid this winter (as they did last...
Among Chicago's barflies of two generations ago, Newsman Eugene Field was about as well known as a bottleman and writer of scatological ballads (such as The French Crisis) as he was as a children's poet. Poet Field was nobody to conduct a Sunday school class, and would have been the first to admit it. But last week, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, school children gathered about the tomb of Eugene Field on the day before the 44th anniversary of his death. A Boy Scout...
...cats in the college comes from Alexander's alleys. All cats are bought from laboratory animal houses which supply with each purchase a family history and a listing of the animal's age, behavior, eating habits. Alexander, continued Dr. Slanetz, undersold his competitors, for high-class cat prices range from $1.25 to $1.50, depending on size...