Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distance races at the Olympics have traditionally gone to Finns and Swedes, but at Cortina they were not in a class with a Leningrad student named Lyubov Kozyreva, who must have done her homework stretching her cross-country stride. She swung over the lo-kilometer (6.2-mile) course in 38:11, scant yards in front of Teammate Radiya Eroshina...
...hearings has almost petered out. The platoon of G.M. brass gathered up their papers and went home, leaving assistants to clean up odds and ends of testimony over the next few weeks. What had O'Mahoney accomplished? The hearings showed that G.M. executives did their homework before they took the stand, that they freely cooperated with the committee, and that they ran a highly efficient business. While some of G.M.'s 17,000 dealers were clearly sore, the records proved that even they had done very well. Quipped one newsman: "It's just an argument between...
...Within four years, Funston joined the boards of directors of seven companies: General Foods, B. F. Goodrich, Connecticut General Life Insurance, Owen-Corning Fiberglas, Hartford Steam Boiler, Aetna Insurance, First National Bank. On each, Funston, as Weinberg says, "was a good director-independent and willing to do the homework...
...school system demands some prompt, effective help," President Eisenhower announced in February, 1953, and the nation's educators promptly chalked up an "A" for homework well-done. But the new administration evidently forgot its important assignment, for now, nearly three years later, the critical need for elementary and secondary school buildings and teachers remains almost totally ignored. Classroom and teacher shortages still force over 700,000 students to attend school only half-day, and 6 million children study, in fire-traps. The picture is not pleasant. The need for more schools and teachers has brought from the White House...
...that, Frank's errancy consisted mostly of pranks-he released a couple of pigeons in the school auditorium during assembly, sometimes took a cat into a movie house and shot it in the hindquarters with a BB pistol to make a commotion. "School was very uninteresting," he remembers. "Homework . . . we never bothered with . . ." In his last year in high school he was expelled, he says, on grounds of general rowdiness...