Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant finding of the project was that timid, reticent, below-average students showed a much greater tendency to "come out of their shells," and join group activities and discussions; and far more chances presented themselves for above-average students to exercise leadership and responsibility. Both sides of the desk-teachers and students-profited by a much happier, more productive learning situation all around. Most important, the California project's gains were not won at the expense of traditional achievements...
...Prime Minister is up at dawn, uses three offices (in the Constituent Assembly building, at the Foreign Ministry, in his home), will stick to desk work all day, then go through a barrage of social engagements, including dinner, then stay up until the small hours dictating to stenographers and lying in his charpoy (Indian string bed) to scan a day's bundle of news clippings. He drives himself equally hard, and much more spectacularly, when he gets away from offices and desks...
Last Monday, a series of large well-wrapt bundles appeared in the downstairs corridor of Sever. The bundles marked the culminating phase of a Great Improvement. They were the first of 1400 new desk chairs, tailor-made for Harvard and Radcliffe bottoms, to be installed in Sever classrooms during the next few months. For that venerable Victorian edifice is being entirely remodelled inside: fluorescent bulbs and light pastel color schemes are turning the place into something of a model classroom building. And in the spring, when Sever is finished, the ambitious gentlemen of the Building and Grounds Department hope...
...photographer, the Boston Post's Morris Fineberg had covered World War I, many a fire, train wreck and disaster. Last week the city desk sent 56-year-old Photographer Fineberg out on a routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...
...weeks passed, however, Wellesley's summer staff found that its new president needed few directions. One room of the big office suite, she learned, was for receiving visitors. The other, with its high ceiling and ornate desk, was for working...