Word: highschool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...
...than about spending it, and are primarily concerned with cinema as a craft, not a business. Once the story is picked and the cast hired, the director is in sole charge until, cutting finished, the picture goes on view. A director's function is primarily that of a highschool, dramatic coach, raised to a fabulous power of complexity. He tells $5,000-a-week stars where to stand and how to speak, screenwriters with millionaires' incomes how to rewrite the classics they are translating into the topical vernacular, photographers where to point cameras as big as limousines...
...curriculum. The graduate of the traditional, classical high school, it said, "knows the story of the geese that saved Rome" but is generally ignorant of the French Revolution, of "Mussolini's and Hitler's use of power." Plumping for a thoroughly progressive program, the commission proposed that highschool studies be built around five cores of human activity-language arts; social relations; home and vocational arts; creative and recreative arts; nature, mathematics and science...
...some 10,000 Roman Catholic schools and colleges in the U. S., 89,000 priests, brothers and nuns teach about 2,500,000 grammar school, highschool, college and seminary students. Last week as Catholic schools were opening for the year, many a Catholic teacher was scandalized to hear orthodox religious education roundly and rudely excoriated, flayed not by some Protestant iconoclast but by a Jesuit of good repute...
...Indiana driver, 50? poorer. It took me a grand total of live minutes to acquire my license and I was asked only one question: "Have you ever, in any State, been issued a driving permit?" My answer was "No." Please tell me when that 20 hours a semester of highschool instruction requirement came into existence. I would like to know if I missed out on something...