Word: homework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well filled with dances and such. First off this afternoon there's the affair at St. Ben's Center, then tomorrow, dances at Curry and Pine Manor (see Mrs. Inglis for reservations). We saw Professor Hanson about this former affair and he promises eider to all ensigns and light homework for all middies interested (see Mrs. Bonn for reservations...
...evening early in 1942 Harris Wofford Jr., 15, was doing his Latin homework and simultaneously listening to his favorite radio program, Mr. District Attorney. When the program ended he did not switch off the radio, because by then he was in the tub. Thus it was that he shortly heard a speaker advancing the merits of Clarence (Union Now) Streit's plan for a federal union of the world's democracies...
...conversion to world federalism, he wrote soon afterward: "The eyes of a schoolboy often wander from a seemingly insignificant lesson on a black board to something bigger, perhaps more important. ... So, too, do the thoughts of a schoolboy, for sometimes his thoughts move from sports and petty quarrels and homework to the bigger things . . . like war and peace. -It is that way with...
...week by the American Council on Education, "College investments under War Conditions" disclosed that the collegiate moneylenders had not earned less than 4% since 1938. Noting that a few colleges were still following a "Rip van Winkle" financial policy of "turning over once and then sleeping," the Council recommended homework on the tried & true "Vassar Plan": buy stocks when the Dow-Jones industrial average is under 130, cash them in for bonds when the market booms...
...Provincial Treasurer Clarence Fines, 38, used to be a schoolteacher. He has been working at political socialism for 15 years, was in on the party's birth ten years ago in Regina. Fines learned what he knows about public finance from his own homework, eight years on Regina's City Council...