Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American children chew too much gum when they come to school. It isn't the gum-it is what the gum-chewing signifies. Gum-chewing in school is like a kid studying in an easy chair alongside the radio. . . . And cigarets. It is pitiful to go to some schools and see the children whip out packs of cigarets as they leave the building...
...themselves are all right. . . . Some of the teachers are bigger problems than the kids. They fail to carry out the things they teach during the day. The teachers shouldn't punch a time clock and sweep out the children at the end of six hours. The school building isn't a factory. Teachers should make home contacts, but you see little of that any more. They should make better daily presentations. That is what has led to haphazard classes...
...least one member of today's graduating class isn't worrying about where his next dollar is coming from. He is James F. Terry '47, 42-year old Economics (cum laude) major from Weymouth, Massachusetts...
...does have two young writers helping him, he says, with leg work and research. An advertising man who has studied the subject closely claims that "Billy writes the column all right, but the two helpers do more than leg work. Billy isn't always the most grammatical writer in the world, you know." With or without helpers, Rose is still one of the hardest workers in a lazybones game. Most of the big columnists have one or more "helpers...
...later. If that's the way it must be, relaxed, competent Jockey Richards can take it, without too much pain. Says he: "I've got a good bed, a good wife and a good car . . . that's really all a man can ask, isn...