Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Pierre is an apprentice welder with little classroom training in chemistry, the French press turned him into a national celebrity. "By what detour," thundered Brussels' Le Peuple, "did Poitrinal, incontestably gifted for the exact sciences, wind up working as an apprentice welder...
Bill rarely cracked a book outside the classroom, but he graduated at 17 in the upper third of his class. There was nothing to do but hang around the farm until his next birthday, when he would be eligible for a job at Bethlehem Steel. Then, just before the birthday, Bill got a letter from one of his father's friends: How would he like to take advantage of his size and go to work at a race track? Because it seemed as good a way as any to get away from home, Bill boarded a bus for Charles Town...
Casehardened with Tradition. Teacher Genevieve Simpson (B.A.1922) was surprised to find that the algebra taught in the ordinary classroom is "not a part of modern algebra at all." Teacher Edgar Arnold (B.E. 1930) found that "this is all new to me. I have to unlearn old symbols and learn new ones. We are casehardened with tradition." "In modern math," adds Teacher Helene Lannon, who got her master's degree as late as 1948, "we have had to learn a new vocabulary. In the traditional mathematics we would say 'cancel out numbers.' Now you say 'divide...
...used-and-new Dodge. Pontiac and Plymouth car lots in Compton. Pasadena, Long Beach and Hollywood, Caruso refined cheating, double-dealing and intimidation into such a formalized art that he actually conducted regular classroom sessions to teach his salesmen (nine of whom got lighter sentences) how to go about it. Salesmen were instructed to get customers to sign blank contracts, later cut the trade-in allowance and raise the new car price they wrote in on the contract. They were taught to spout figures at a torrential rate to confuse the buyer, and to never put a deal in writing...
Teachers-white and Negro-at Central Junior lay much of the blame for the classroom combat on a small core of Negro bullies whose methods were soon picked up by other pupils. Other troublemakers: chronic malcontents who have to stay in school under Missouri law until they are 16, and non-pupils who invade the school grounds to stir up trouble...