Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sold newspapers and magazines on the streets of Spokane, where his family moved when he was eight, saved every cent for a college education. At the University of Washington he became a formidable debater, a campus politico, a precinct committeeman in the Democratic Party before he left the classroom. Friends recall that he became a Democrat because the state was full of Republicans; he figured he could get in on the ground floor...
Then Perón hit back. Police and firemen came up with reinforcements. Slowly they drove the students from classroom to class room with high-pressure fire hoses and tear gas. In the central hall the students surrendered. At least 50 had been injured. In a Buenos Aires demonstration that night, student Aaron José Salmon Feijot had been killed...
...threat to skulduggery and breakfast-food salesmanship is CBS's formidably titled American School of the Air (5-5:30 p.m., E.S.T.), which has been piling up prestige with educators for 15 years, and somehow satisfying the kids too. For five years it has been the official classroom program of the National Education Association, has been piped into many U.S. schools. CBS has decided that it is too much trouble to try to juggle hours and programs to satisfy school pro grams from coast to coast. Now, going on the air in most of the U.S. after school...
...they definitely did not want to do their catching up in the classroom: the Army's Division of Information and Education soon found that out. The Army's first halting attempts to lecture the home-bound G.I.s on the back news, while they waited for ships to take them to the U.S., were met by razzberry-flavored questions: "What are we doing here? Why aren't we on our way home?" Last week the Army tried a new way-elaborately casual teaching...
...Radio Classroom! . . . Hello, boys and girls. . . . Are you getting just the sort of food you need? How many vitamins are you getting? Enough? Can you have too many? What about the water you drink? Is it safe? Are you sure...