Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reuther, who likes woodworking, remodeled the house himself. He helps Linda with her homework after dinner or on weekends. Last weekend he stayed in town for the Ford negotiations and did not get home at all. When Linda heard of the G.M. negotiations this weekend, she cried: "Daddy, you got to come home-I have a test on Monday...
...final examination in a course on Techniques of Plant Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin. The ego-inflating article strongly implied that there was little need to study for the exam. The exam was flunked. The other, after reading the article, came to a similar conclusion regarding a homework assignment in Quantum Mechanics at the U. of I. At the present writing, the assignment has not even been begun...
...down happily and their 'doll marriages' are touchingly beautiful." Reported one of the young mothers, 19, preoccupied with both schoolbooks and a six-month-old boy: "Since the baby arrived, my husband and I have had no free time and have been forced to do all our homework at night. Marriage, pregnancy and diaper-changing cannot be combined with schoolwork. We regard the Scripture teacher as a fine and cultured person, but we definitely oppose his moral view. It belongs to another age." Both she and her husband, reported the girl, have decided to keep on studying. Their...
There is the added difficulty of antecedence and homework: "It's impossible to assume that most will attend and do the reading with any regularity, as you can about a college class," one instructor said. "Some come from as far as Providence on the coldest of nights and have read everything I suggested. Others don't even buy the books and attend perhaps half the lectures. At five dollars per half course, each lectures costs only fifteen cents, which few mind wasting...
...With only two weeks to prepare his cases for the new court term, George figured that opposing attorneys would expect him to ask for delays and would therefore neglect their own homework. He was right: when court opened, George was ready, and the others were not. In that term George handled more cases than any other Dooly County lawyer, won nearly all of them. Vienna's attorneys were delighted when, six years later, George took himself from competitive practice to run for prosecuting attorney of the Cordele judicial district. In 1912 he was appointed a district court judge, once...