Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Constitution was silent on the matter of education, and schooling became a function of state governments, which delegated power to towns and local school boards. Still, the main thrust of education was directed chiefly at achieving spiritual and moral purity. Fresh ideas, however, had begun to emerge. In Europe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau declared that education should strive to prepare a child for the world about him, not for the hereafter. Switzerland's Johann Pestalozzi urged schools to stop the "empty chattering of mere words" and help children to learn through observation, experimentation and reasoning. In the U.S., Horace Mann...
...psychological and psychiatric services for disturbed children, hopes to find out "what's bugging problem youngsters and why they cannot tick." Arlington, Va., educators are considering a music center, a planetarium and a science day camp. Responding to a survey in the trade publication, Grade Teacher, Detroit Teacher Jean Curtiss declared: "Oh boy, I'd like to see to it that every child came to school decently clothed, especially with warm clothes" (part of the federal allotment can, in fact, be spent on clothing). Other instructors want to use their money for such aids as film strips, slide...
...revealed their engagement, and that Ernest Hemingway and Louis Untermeyer resorted to fisticuffs over some forgotten difference of literary opinion. For a quarter of a century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...French had won the war. But what price victory? The day before the race, Owner Jean Ternynck, a Lille textile manufacturer, had agreed to lease Sea Bird to Kentucky's John Galbreath for stud duty in the U.S.-at $1,500,000 for five years. If Ternynck had waited another day, experts agreed, he undoubtedly could have demanded twice as much...
...will prove a fine addition to our reference shelves."--Jean M. Murdock, Librarian, Public Library, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts...