Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often a B Schooler is seen sulking around the halls of Baker with his cases hidden under his coat. Inevitably, upon questioning, he admits that he is carrying sheets marked "confidential, for classroom use only." Actually this is no mark of a great secret document, but merely the administration's method of saying that they have not been able to copyright the case. They manage to copyright almost everything and the "confidential" case is the exception rather than the ruls...
Says the pamphlet: "The Tsing Hua University in Peiping ... is used by the Japanese mainly as a hospital for their wounded soldiers. The auditorium ... is being used as a meeting place for the troops. . . . The eastern half of the biological laboratory is a stable, while the classroom attached to it is a bar. . . . The new southern residential quarters have become Japanese brothels...
...believed that what Georgia's hut-dwelling, soil-scratching, God-fearing mountain folk needed most was someone to teach them how to live and farm better. He bought more land, put up neat, comfortable farmhouses, let each family farm 40 acres with teachers to show them how. In classroom sessions that are more like town meetings than classes, the men talk about soil, animals and crops, the women discuss better housekeeping. Children spend part of their day in school, part learning chores. As payment for instruction, house and land, each family returns part of its produce to the school...
Miss Weekes did not see the raider. She was presiding over her classroom. But she heard the roar, of course, and the rat-a-tat of its machine guns. The Jerry must be raking the streets, she decided, and. as quickly as she could, she herded her class into a place which she considered comparatively safe near a hallway. In another classroom Headmaster Stevenson said briskly: "Under the desks, boys...
...speaking a strange new language, fazing their elders with terms like wobble pump, advection, burble, troposphere, chandelle, nacelle. A fourth R, preflight training, is now a part of many curricula. Its purpose is to condition school children to take to the air almost as soon as they leave the classroom. Less purposefully, but just as certainly, preflight training will mark an immensurably great divide between the airborne generation of the post-war world and their earth-bound elders...