Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meager population has more than tripled, from 105 to 350, in the past four months. Roomers are bedded down on cots in the corridors of the town's only hotel. New streets have been laid out, lined with tar-paper shacks and auto trailers. A third classroom will be opened this week for the winter term in the Smiley schoolhouse...
...Economy. Governor Lee has remained adamant. In 1951 he vetoed a bill to up per-classroom funds by $300; then he vetoed another bill to up funds by $200. Meanwhile, he appointed a committee to study school costs, but when the committee's report came in, urging bigger appropriations, he scorned it. Not until last month did he call a special session of the legislature to cope with the school crisis. It was then that the governor's troubles really began...
...mill; it has the world's largest permanent catalogue (10,000 titles), (the largest stock 15 million volumes) and probably the biggest sales (nearly 10 million books a year from the British list alone). The grandfather of all university presses, it has been don, professor, schoolmaster, campus and classroom to millions of scholars and laymen...
...formulated this political philosophy shortly after the close of the war, but his theory of aesthetics has seen gradual revision. His is a practical approach to art, learned not in the classroom but as an official in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1931, when he became a professor of fine arts at the University of Edinborough, embarrassed officials hastily granted him an M.A. To this, Leeds later added an honorary doctorate. His most recent honor was election to knighthood last New Year...
Otherwise the big boys might trap her in a corner 'and beat hell out of her." Later, when I visited this teacher in New York, I found that her students had chopped down all the classroom doors on the first floor. I concluded there was a lot about education that I didn't know...