Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed glass-bottomed boats, through which avid-eyed tourists once stared back at opal-eyed bass, were tied up at the docks. The $2,000,000, twelve-story casino, on whose Moorish-Spanish exterior thousands of weekenders penciled their names, was a part time classroom; the expensive St. Catherine Hotel was a training headquarters and barracks; the Wrigley-built Hotel Atwater was a school and dormitory for marine stewards, cooks and bakers...
...Arts. Unknown to the King, students were rushed from room to room to give the monarch the impression that the school was packed. Dali declares that he was so infuriated by this insult to the King that he waited until the school was empty, locked himself in the sculpture classroom, turned the faucet on full force. Says Dali: "My idea was very simple: to cause a great inundation of plaster. I used all the four sacks of plaster that were in the room. . . . As the [plaster] was greatly diluted, [it] was able to flow under the doors. Soon I could...
Into a busy Brooklyn classroom last week stormed Mrs. Alice Thompson, colored. Before a frightened class of fifth-graders, she punched Teacher Zelda Meisels several times, hit her with a hand bag, slapped her, left her lying on the floor with possible brain concussion, internal in juries, hysteria...
Seven minutes' walk from the classroom sector is the area of homes, the College Quadrangle. The six Halls surround a large very flat space, which is used for such ladylike pursuits as sitting in the sun and playing field hockey...
Investigation shows that the Radcliffe girl is not quite so astonishing as she's built down to be. Teachers at Harvard and the "Annex" agree that there's more conscientious work across the Common, but less originality. Classroom reaction is slower, and a challenging bluebook slams a section man's ideas far less often. There's an old story for that: the lecturer got so darn sick of the plodding, noting, reactionless class that he dove off into a fantastic peroration. His class ended with fancy flying far from fact in a completely imaginative vein. And the Radcliffe students calmly...