Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Manhattan's famed Progressive Lincoln School sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last...
Most active Southcott group today is the Panacea Society, founded some 20 years ago, which claims to cure "Cancer . . . Consumption . . . Mental Anxiety . . . Faults of Disposition ... the Tribulations and Perplexity that will precede the Coming of the Lord," by means of "Water and the Spirit." The Panacea Society claims that the 156-lb. box in its possession is the only true Joanna Southcott...
Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented...
...March 2 the price hit 1,080 and the Japanese Government stepped in and stopped trading for a few days. Nonetheless, the price climbed to 1,195 yen ($325) on April 19, stood last week at 1,160. When this 40% price rise began, the small group of U. S. branded hosiery makers (such as Gotham and Phoenix) which control their resale prices had already announced their spring prices. For fear that unbranded rivals would undercut them, they did not raise prices and continued to manufacture out of previously purchased supplies. Meantime the silk became harder & harder to buy. Last...
...effort to alleviate the rooming problem which now exists for about 270 foreign students enrolled in the University, the International Club is organizing an International House which next year will provide lodgings and accommodations for a mixed group of about...