Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Epoque. Last week he avowed: "It's true I've taken more digs at Left politicians but that's because they are so much funnier to draw." Patent-leather smooth, dark, fat, affable J. Sennep's real name is Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes. One brother, General Roger Pennes, is a bigwig in the Air Ministry. After serving through the War in the infantry, Jean Pennes went to work for the Royalist Action Francaise, was first assigned to cover Communist meetings at Garches, ten and a half miles outside of Paris. His resentment at this chore...
Three years ago the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $500,000 for this study because New York illustrates the best and worst points in U. S. education, has big city systems and many rural schools. A Board of Regents survey committee, headed by Owen D. Young, picked tall, spectacled Luther Halsey Gulick to make the survey...
...pupils who are not going to college; let elementary schools end at the sixth grade, let the pattern of elementary, junior and senior high-school education be 6-4-4, 6-5-3, or 6-3-5. In the first six years of secondary schools youngsters should get a general education in science, human relations, world history, community life, mathematics, the arts. In the last two years boys & girls aged 18 to 20 should be given general vocational training ("sound general knowledge undergirding a family of occupations"). Training for specific trades in school is expensive and unwise, says Dr. Gulick...
...American) by doing a day's work in the town where he began. Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, who has written 51 books under his commoner's name of John Buchan, called them "a terrible weight on my conscience," confessed with a simper that he has written "far, far too many...
Last year Surgeon General Thomas Parran granted Ernest Orlando Lawrence $30,000 to use in cancer experiments. Last week Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, director of the National Advisory Cancer Council, announced that a group of cancer patients, drawn from a special list in the University of California's San Francisco teaching hospital, have been placed under the cyclotron for treatment. Wary of raising false hopes, Dr. Hektoen warned that "these treatments are purely experimental...