Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll of Radcliffe freshmen, sophomores, and juniors this week will help decide the fate of the 1950 Yearbook. Jane Rainie '50, Junior Class president announced last night...
...shortage of trained teachers, the millions of children who are getting substandard schooling and the confusion in educational goals. The worst problem of all, in the commission's view: in spite of all the efforts of the parent-teacher associations, the public is still doing too little to help...
...areas. To make sure that the commission stays above all special interests, it will accept only members "not professionally identified with education, religion, or politics." As the commission set up shop this week, it had $250,000 in grants from the Carnegie Corporation and the General Education Board to help it along. To many professional educators, the commission's plans sounded good. Said Harvard's President Conant:" "Potentially the most important move for the advancement of public education taken in the last 50 years...
...board's price-fixing powers down the hatch. Unless the decision was reversed, there would soon be a wave of price-cutting all over the state. In July, 29 million gallons of aged whisky laid down right after VE-day would roll on to the market, ready to help the downward push...
...appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself, from memorable criticisms of his contemporaries to ill-tempered notes to dissatisfied subscribers. His wife was business manager; when an issue came out she drafted the family nursemaid or stray visitors to help mail...