Word: deweyitis
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...Clayton won the 600 with a time of 1:11.8, and captain Walter Johnson nipped DelRay Maughan and Dewey Hickman to take the 60-yard highs in 7.5 seconds...
McCurdy and Stowell cited Joe Naughton in the shot put, Dewey Hickman in the hurdles, Baylee Reid in the sprints, and Bob Clayton in the middle distances as the outstanding sophomores...
...Oklahoma, Republican Governor Dewey Bartlett promised not to increase taxes; Democrat David Hall, a portly, silver-haired former Tulsa County prosecutor who stumped the rural areas assiduously, went him one better by pledging tax relief for working-class families. Hall won by an unofficial margin of 2,819 votes, pending a possible recount...
...Caps. One wishes for more vignettes because those she tells are so good. There is Tom Dewey toddling off in L.B.J.'s too-large pajamas during an unexpected White House stay. Or Mayor Richard Daley in 1964 earnestly outlining his solution to possible race riots in Chicago: the cops would wear caps instead of helmets "so that each would look like a friend down the block...
...anyone over 40, informal education strongly resembles John Dewey's ideas-the "progressive" education that excited Americans in the 1920s and angered them in the 1950s. The trouble with progressivism, Silberman admits, was that too often it degenerated into shoddiness, partly because few teachers were properly trained to carry it out. For that reason, Silberman joins a host of previous school critics in urging a drastic upgrading in the training of U.S. teachers...