Word: classroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Besides the classroom shortage, there was a teacher shortage in defense centers. In Washington, confusion was further confounded by a shortage of school janitors, many of whom had quit for defense jobs...
Professor George Lyman Kittredge's last exit was unstagy. He died peacefully in bed in his Cape Cod summer home at Barnstable, at 81. But Harvard men will remember him for his studied, perfectly timed classroom entrances and exits, his imperious walking stick, his haughty, traffic-stopping marches across Harvard Square, his pearl-grey suits and wing collars, his snowy beard (which he kept so, according to legend, by dippings in laundry bluing). One day (also according to legend) he presented himself, magnificently dressed and bearded, at a Beacon Hill mansion for tea. The girl who opened the door...
...Busy School will provide board, lodging, and classroom for the sailors, but the Navy will bring its own instructors. The bulk of the Middies will take over next week after Commencement is finished...
...Nazi-conscious Panama police. After eight days in a foul jail, he was freed and darted south into the brush. Three weeks later he emerged from the jungle at the Colombian border. Having done the impossible, he presented his notes and films to the Highway officers, returned to his classroom. As reward he asked nothing, and got it. Last week plans were going ahead for preliminary surveys of the Panama-Colombia link...
Last week's exhibition at the Boston school committee's Beacon Street building was a public show of classroom work done by the children. Notable was the ease with which moppets grasped economic and quasi-economic ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked...