Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom's "schoolhouse-brown" paint. Last week New York's public school system, which adopted pastel shades in 1943, announced a sixth tested classroom color combination: peach and rose...
...black pipe, charred and chewed, is almost as famous as his classroom ritual "Now you can see at once"--a hopeful, declaration usually followed by the most profound point of the day's lecture. His lectures are invariably provocative and stimulating, and his students can hardly escape acquiring his scholarly attitude...
Professor Payson wild's contribution to classroom harmony, ("I think the exchange of opinion between men and women fruitful") was endorsed without reservation as 65% of the House decided that the exchange was fruitful, A smaller group felt that it was "not fruitful," and a third, introvert contingent said just plain "sour grapes...
...clear that on many occasions during the war Conant the chemist and "field agent" was called upon for decisions far removed from the test-tube and University classroom. His firm contention in 1942 that the bomb could shorten the war came at a time when high military officials considered the whole scheme expendable. It was a force behind President Roosevelt's decision to allow the project to grow beyond the blueprint stage. Later in 1942, Conant, as a member of the Baruch Committee, was asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still...
...employ fewer than 4,500 characters, even educated Japs have to use dictionaries to understand them all, and uneducated Japs have trouble with anything more than the headlines (the average citizen of Tokyo knows 600 characters; the average rural Jap 325). Beginning Jap schoolchildren spend 17 out of 22 classroom hours a week in a struggle to master 1,356 characters-time, said the mission, "that might be devoted to the acquisition of . . . useful linguistic and numerical skills, of essential knowledge about the world, of physical nature and human society...