Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night classes. It should get the same recognition as the various military reserves, should be set up on a national basis, perhaps by act of Congress. "Because of their practical experience," said Sarnoff, "teachers in the Educational Reserve Corps would bring the breath of living reality into the classroom. They would help to restore the sense of adventure to technical careers and inspire many an able and imaginative student...
Beer, representing the state A.D.A., complained that investigations "based on such vague terms as communist sympathy or affiliation with a subversive organization," would result in an atmosphere of fear in the classroom and would curtail free discussion of ideas...
...secret meeting in a classroom of the Hattingen trade-union school might have been a military briefing, except that the men wore mufti and talked of such unmilitary objectives as office keys, filing cabinets and street addresses. Intently they took instruction from an incisive young man, then hurried off in automobiles to nine cities of West Germany's industrial Ruhr. At the stroke of 8 next morning, the nine men led small groups of assistants into nine regional offices and the headquarters of the big Northrhine-Westphalia Building Workers' Union, seized the offices and the files...
Since that cold Nov. 18 when she first showed up in her seventh-grade classroom wearing a pair of corduroy slacks, Shirley Richardson, 14, of Thompsonville, Conn., has been leading a lonely life. Principal Ernest White told her that slacks were against the rule, and that unless she returned to skirts, she would have to sit in a room by herself. Shirley's parents protested that as a result of an operation four years ago, Shirley's legs needed special protection against the cold. The principal asked to see a doctor's affidavit, but never...
...Tokyo, City School Board Spokesman Masami Tsujita defended the board's disputed decision not to employ teachers under 5 ft. tall: "There are many difficulties involving teachers less than 5 ft. ... In outdoor activities it is difficult to locate her; in the classroom she will not be able to reach the top of the blackboard...