Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsstand demand, the circulation of TIME's regular domestic edition has forced itself back up to about the same 1,193,011 peak it hit just before paper curtailment-with roughly 800,000 subscribers and 400,000 newsstand buyers. And another 38,000 copies of our wartime classroom edition go to the nation's schools to be used as their textbook in current affairs...
...have finished O. & E.'s 14-day course and have gone back to their posts to pass their learning on to other officers and noncoms who will preside over soldier powwows. Last week a third group at Lexington plowed its way into eight hours a day of intensive classroom work. So far the compulsory part of the program has not been extended to overseas units...
...story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom. She also stamps out any intimation that her characters are important people whose lives, even if they do not value them themselves, are of human significance. Readers may also feel that in emphasizing the faded Main Street malice of parts of Hackettston, Mrs. Janeway is buying some of the Brazilian...
...this point began as mad a scramble as war ever witnessed in a Harvard classroom. Man and beast locked in a struggle of obstinacy while students held onto their seats and gave vocal vent to their reactions. The professor lunged at the animal, but with every lunge the dog skillfully evaded him, accompanying each parry with a resounding howl...
Unlike the students in the classroom, the animal became enamoured of the instructor's voice and whenever the dulcet tones reached his ears he proceeded to give vent to a sound which vaguely resembled a mating call. This was, to say the least, unusual, particularly since this was a class in electronics, a subject as far removed from biology as anything...