Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pioneers. In Denver, the City Council refused to abolish the Park Hill bus route, despite the Denver Tramway Corp.'s complaint: the drivers were always getting lost...
...James N. Hill, widow of the son of the great railroad builder, for marrying Charles Blevins Davis, friend of President Truman and onetime escort of Margaret Truman...
Peabody's division of field studies has surveyed 20 state and city educational systems, in the South and Southwest, and recommended . improvements. It is the South's No. 1 propagandist for more junior colleges-stressing technical training. Reasons Hill: "In junior colleges, we can train men to be factory superintendents and they don't need to learn Latin...
...Hill himself quit a $15,000 job as superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools to go back South "because I can do more here than anywhere else." Hill landed in education quite by accident; while recuperating from an auto crash in Arkansas, he took a job teaching-for $65 a month...
...friend once observed that he could walk a mile in the time it takes Henry Hill to walk through a hotel lobby. A lanky, easy-spoken fellow of 53, Hill walked and talked his way through a lot of lobbies last year as president of the American Association of School Administrators. His hard-headed administrative outlook: "Let's have glorious ideals for education, but let's use horse sense in achieving them." Typical of his horse sense was the time when, as a school superintendent, he was called by the mayor, who wanted to boost somebody...