Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These conditions are rarely the fault of local or state administration. North Dakota, for instance, spends twice as much percentage-wise of its annual income on education as California, and yet can afford to pay its teachers only half as much. There simply isn't enough money for education--outside of Washington. The proposed bill would deal out the federal funds to each state, giving most of it to the needy, and only a soupcon to such rich states as New York...
Government is a big field, and one that isn't good for everybody, although you might think so at first. This is because the non-honors concentrator, whose plan of study lacks direction, may wallow aimlessly through three years of loosely connected courses...
History is a subject which still puts a premium on the memory. If you have a reasonably good one, if you can read a book and digest it--history isn't an awfully hard field. The biggest thing history has to offer is considerable range and freedom of choice. Six courses are all that are needed for concentration...
...chief of the division, picks his men with minute care. Their records must show that they are not "accident prone." Formal engineering training is valuable, but character is essential. The prospective test pilot must be alert, intelligent, stable and not excitable. He must be enthusiastic about the work. There isn't enough money, explains Colonel Boyd undramatically, to pay for what a test pilot will be asked...
...Hamlin, W. Va. (pop. 850). His father, A. Hal Yeager, is a prosperous contract gas-well driller. Chuck is a hero to Hamlin, but the townspeople love him with special fervor because he refuses to act like a hero. Says Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would...