Word: joining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant finding of the project was that timid, reticent, below-average students showed a much greater tendency to "come out of their shells," and join group activities and discussions; and far more chances presented themselves for above-average students to exercise leadership and responsibility. Both sides of the desk-teachers and students-profited by a much happier, more productive learning situation all around. Most important, the California project's gains were not won at the expense of traditional achievements...
Partly this is because Gandhi blessed him. Partly it has to do with a tradition of Indian life since Buddha-the imaginative appeal of a highborn Brahman, such as Nehru, giving up a life of ease to join a popular cause such as liberation from British rule. Finally, the largely illiterate masses of India, not yet beyond a feudal horizon, still look up to their ruler as a child looks to its parent...
Placing the emphasis on practicing art, the group plans to go on excursions for inspiration, to model for each other, and to hold an exhibit of its creations in the spring. The "Dabblers" may also sponsor lectures on the world of art and join art appreciation and museum associations...
...very young man, demobilized after World War I (he faked a birth certificate to join up at 15), Francis Marion Grandstaff could not decide whether to follow his father's profession of medicine or his childhood inclination to music. He solved his dilemma by taking up crime...
...evangelistic movement of the past half-century got under way this week. For the next 15 months-until New Year's Eve of 1950 -38 Protestant denominations, with a membership of some 35 million, will be united in trying to persuade the unchurched (estimated at 70 million) to join one of their denominations, take part in their work and devotions. Title of this all-out effort (which is sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches): the United Evangelistic Advance...