Word: hens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing something about the frustration of pioneers like Raymond W. Hilliard [Dec. 14] as he tries to teach "little-red-hen" materials to adult illiterates...
...biggest single educational problem in Chicago's program, which is now being eyed by other big cities, is a lack of suitable primers for adults. "We can't have these grown men and women reading about the little red hen," says one official. To meet the need, teachers are writing their own readers, inventing new educational tricks. They are winning the confidence of their pupils, some of them so self-conscious about their lack of education that one man, for example, habitually carried a newspaper with him to mask his total illiteracy. Next month, enrollment will reach...
...creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
Fenn's blitz is described by one teacher as "memorize, memorize, memorize. Listen and memorize, say and memorize, see and memorize."Even the most enthusiastic Thayer student realizes he will eventually sigh: "Wo hen lei [I am very tired...
Eggs with Hens Inside. He produced everything from an image of Buddha in nephrite (a form of jade) for the King of Siam to many of the great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs...