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Word: classroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crushed his right leg last spring, and freckle-faced Leadom Beatty, 14, has been laid up in bed ever since. But last week he was "back" at school, hooked up from his bed to the sixth-grade classroom at Houston's Fannin Elementary School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Roger & Out | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...bring Leadom to school, engineers of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. had rigged up an experimental machine called the "Teletalk." A special telephone circuit connects two sets of microphones and loudspeakers-one set in Teacher Fleda Cox's classroom, the other in Pupil Beatty's bedroom. Says Principal Dorothy Swope, who sold Southwestern Bell the idea: "It's surprising. When Leadom was actually in class, he was reticent. Now perhaps because he's called on more than anyone else, and because the other children have made him the most important member of their group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Roger & Out | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...good part of the interior lighting in the University fall incredibly below minimum standards. Many fixtures are antiquated, some are badly in need of repair. And there is not a single major classroom which even approaches the approved norms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lighting: Sub-Standard | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...walked with mincing little steps, and never appeared on the lecture platform except in morning coat and striped trousers. He always claimed to hate lecturing ("Why do we do it? Why do we do it?") But scarcely had a term begun than students were scrambling for seats in his classroom. "Go down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time," an undergraduate journal once advised. And when, during World War I, he took over a local pulpit for a few Sundays, his church was so crowded that the Cambridge Review commented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Period Piece | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...TIME Medicine stories in a college textbook he was revising; to a newspaper chain, which wanted to run Billion-Dollar Hangover (TIME, April 5) on its editorial pages; to a University of Kansas sociology professor who wanted to use the Jackie Robinson cover story (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947) for classroom discussion; to the Military Training branch of the New York Port of Embarkation, which wanted to use various stories for its troop information programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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