Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opposition to the war has been confined pretty exclusively to the small section of the commercial class which once subsisted largely on trade with China. The penalty for a word of criticism of the war is stiff: three years in jail...
...York State Education Department] says "in making nut bread the pupils learn to add, subtract & multiply." A similar method of education was used in England in the time of Charles Dickens. In Nicholas Nickleby, the schoolmaster, Squeers, gave the verb "weed" to be spelled, defined and conjugated by the class and then sent them out to weed the garden...
...there are to be captives in the White House, Mr. Lewis is ready to join the hunt: "Anxious for more and immediate gains for labor, he would like to see a President elected by a partnership of labor, the middle class, liberals and the farmers. He is thus interested in the possible formation of a bloc which can control the Democratic party; or failing that, a new liberal or progressive party rather than a labor party. His own candidacy for the Presidency, if it comes about in 1940, would be with Lewis a second choice. He would rather back...
...Thus 10% of high-school seniors know more than the average college senior and 22% know more than the average sophomore. A study of a typical college showed that, if degrees were granted on the basis of general knowledge, at the time of the test 28% of the senior class, 21% of the juniors, 19% of the sophomores and 15% of the freshmen would have been entitled to a degree...
...innovation, started last year by the P.G.A., which shows the finishing position of top-notch professionals in every medal-play tournament of the "stake-race" class...