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Word: homework (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, the Department plans to conduct a poll of the 700-800 students studying Romance Languages in mid-April to uncover new suggestions for improvements. Judging from student complaints, said Politzer, class time is largely spent correcting homework thus forcing the student to teach himself at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dept. to Cut Oral Language Classes | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

...Homework. In Oklahoma City, as Detective L. L. Filson took down the description of a fugitive on his home telephone, he glanced out the window and saw the fugitive walking by, stepped out the front door and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Since the day he was sworn in, Brownell has been working seven days and seven evenings a week and holding daily luncheon conferences with his staff. On a recent weekend, his homework was studying the case of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to determine whether he should recommend, clemency or reject their plea. The new man at Justice takes his job very seriously. Said he: "I feel strongly that the Department of Justice is a keystone of the Republic. If it fails, all that our youth has fought to preserve crumbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cleanup Man | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...committeewoman. Among her top posts: wartime chairman of Civilian Advisory Committee for the Women's Army Corps, president of the National Health Council, chairman of the U.S. Committee for the U.N. International Children's Emergency Fund. Of her new job, she said: "I have a lot of homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school to work at their hobbies in Alliance playrooms, attend dances and do their homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: East of the Bowery | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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