Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same classroom with whites, were invited to enroll...
Most of last week's first program was a rambling, transcribed classroom bull session, complete with sound of chairs scraping and doors slamming. Its subject: Must we have war with Russia? As it drew to its inconclusive end, the announcer slithered again into his commercial: "Be alert! Be informed! Be able to hold your own in an argument...
...moment came at a meeting of the Department of Classroom Teachers, a powerful subdivision of the N.E.A. The discussion was about overcrowding in schools, and Miss Mowrey rose to tell her colleagues about the situation in Clarksburg. Most of them found it painfully familiar...
...hardworking, colorless John Studebaker, 61, quit his $10,000 job. "Along with too many other men," he wrote President Truman, "the time has now come when I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." As vice president of Scholastic Magazines and editorial chairman of their five classroom publications, he would make considerably more...
False Notes. Erica is interested in other things too: her jeweler-husband, her cooking. But ever since she used to hide in her father's classroom in Vienna as a tot of three and cry "false" when a student struck a sour note, music has always come first. Now a confirmed classicist, she says that contemporary music "is not music for me-I like to play a tune...