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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baltimore's Calvert School calls itself "The School That Comes to You." It operates a mail-order business that sends complete grade-school courses to the isolated and the bedridden all over the world. Calvert got into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse...
Another lot of graduates will teach eighth grade general science, sixth grade geography, and seventh grade arithmetic come the fall. Low girl on the teaching totem pole reported that she would teach "things" to fourth graders in Pennsylvania...
...began with a salute to the flag and the Lord's Prayer. Then Miss McKinney started classes. While she taught one grade, boys & girls in other grades did "busy work" at their desks ("I have no trouble keeping them quiet. They want to learn"). At lunchtime, she and her pupils spread out their vacuum bottles and sandwiches at a long table and ate together. In the afternoon there were more classes, and then sports. Since Miss McKinney never had enough students for two baseball teams, she played first base for both sides ("I'm better at fielding than...
...argument over meat. The Department of Agriculture feared that corn would be at least 200,000,000 bu. too short-and too expensive-to maintain meat production at present levels. On the other hand, the American Meat Institute saw "no drastic effect on meat supplies or prices." Nevertheless, top grade beef in Chicago rose to $30.50 a cwt., highest since last January. Not till all the crops were in would the consumer know how things would be with his pocket book...
...infect. Unfortunately for the host, viruses often commit suicide by killing the patient. But in the long run, says Burnet, the virus varieties with the best chance of survival are those that "live & let live." Many of the viruses that infect man have evolved into forms that produce low-grade infections, often so harmless that the host may not notice them. And a light infection may make human beings immune to attack by a more dangerous variety of the same virus...