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Word: hooke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modernizing the completely out-dated set by adding new lines to enable broadcasting from both 'Cliffe quadrangles, and is also developing a second channel that has never been used before. WRRB will then be able to transmit two broadcasts simultaneously, and will also gain new control of its sound hook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Radcliffe, Aided By M.I.T., Modernizes Set | 4/14/1953 | See Source »

...Fisherman Got Away. In Las Vegas, Nev., Colonel Alfred Lambert Jr. cast his fishing line into Lake Mead, pulled in a new, spun-glass fishing rod with a 2-lb. catfish on its hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...sanity by allowing all night parking on one side of the street. Making one side so temptingly legal, the city might coerce the now defiant motorists to park single file in- stead of haphazardly blocking both sides. The Fire Department admits that with one side clear even the chubby hook-and-ladder could slither through the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lot of Parkers | 3/17/1953 | See Source »

...educator approved his formula. A teacher, said Taft, should not be fired simply for being a Communist-unless he was actually trying to indoctrinate his students. Last week, in the New Leader, one educator took a hard second look. The Taft formula, said New York University's Sidney Hook, would never work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unworkable Formula | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Though no advocate of the current congressional investigations of U.S. campuses, Hook himself believes that membership in the Communist Party automatically disqualifies a teacher. But assuming that it does not, says he, there is still no way to tell whether a teacher is indoctrinating or not. "How would we find out? Would we observe him in class? No one indoctrinates when he is under observation. Episodic inspection in the classroom can enable one to tell something about the pedagogic techniques of a teacher . . . [But] except in its crudest forms, indoctrination in the classroom can rarely be detected save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unworkable Formula | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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