Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school pupils set up a picture of Hitler and pelted it with chalk. This was part of a demonstration for the 13-year-old son of Justice Minister Konstantinovitch, one of the three Ministers who resigned from the Cabinet. But while the schoolboys were carrying young Konstantinovitch around the classroom on their shoulders, his father withdrew his resignation and joined the Government majority...
...lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with a load of books, and raising one aloft, announced: "Gentlemen, this is an exceedingly rare edition. There are only two copies in America left." Thereupon, in the professor's best dramatic classroom manner, he ripped the book in half...
...qualified on the pistol and automatic rifle ranges, 75% with the Springfield. Betweentimes, swathed in coveralls, they had hiked, practiced open-order fighting, strung barbed wire. In the late afternoons, after 45 minutes of football, baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly...
Until he retired five years ago, "Kitty" was a well-known figure to the whole College, where he taught for 48 years. Students who absentmindedly neglected to remove their hats on entering his classroom were instantly reprimanded, and many of his other dislikes became legendary...
This is a Brooklyn classroom. It is nearly midnight. Since early morning these machines have been humming, training men for U. S. industrial defense. This shift, the lobster trick, started at 10:30 p.m. At 2 the men will stop for coffee; at 5 a.m. they will yield their machines to the next shift...