Word: corresponded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regular departments include a "Teachers' Help-One-Another Club" (contributors get $1 apiece for fresh teaching ideas), a lonely hearts column in which teachers and pupils advertise their yen to correspond with classes elsewhere. Eight experts (in arithmetic, reading, etc.) answer teachers' questions. One of the most popular departments (called The You You Can Be) advises teachers about grooming and behavior. Sample tips...
...Struik, professor of Mathematics at M. I. T., compared political with scientific history. Science is cumulative, he pointed out, but it is not always true that political leaders can build upon experience of the past. "Nevertheless, the main periods of general history correspond to those of the history of science," he said...
Florence Hawley is now studying a group of timbers from an old ship found on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. If she finds their rings correspond to those of oaks growing near Niagara Falls in 1667, the ship is probably Explorer Robert LaSalle's Griffin...
...high unconcern for the press. He is above all criticism, good or bad, from a world whose culture and civilization are degenerate. He has an enormous and un-selfconscious ego concerning the immortality of his works, but won't budge form the assertion that none of the modern greats correspond in ability to those of the past. "When there are no fish, a crawfish is a fish," he says. "I am a crawfish." Yet he has doubled the size of Harvard's Sociology Department, attracted a brilliant group of graduate students, and has probably written as many books...
...from the ancestral norm) in all forms of life. The success of some mutations in the struggle for existence largely accounts for evolution, which has proceeded through the ages from protozoa to lizard to man seemingly in spurts rather than at a steady pace. The spurts and lags may correspond to varying intensity of cosmic ray showers...