Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheating. Nearly half (46.5%) of 241 pupils in Oregon's Corvallis Junior High School recently grabbed what looked like a fine chance to cheat.* That was in line with other studies of student honesty (TIME, June 19, 1939). But this study, by Lyle Johnson of the Eastern Oregon College of Education, went ahead to look for causes. Some findings, published in the high-school teachers' monthly, Clearing House...
...longer will there be the old carefree days of private flats and charwomen who bring in a bedside cup of early-morning tea. Under new regulations, officers will be billeted in hotel rooms and flats which the Army will rent. The usual rule will be: three junior officers, or two majors, or two lieutenant colonels to a room. Colonels can live alone. The Army will pay for rent, gas, light and telephone up to a total of $4 a day. Officers will still get their $1.25 a day for food but not the extra $21 a month. A mess will...
...John Loder) sinks more & more to the status of a cute trick to have around the house. He falls in love with Miss Davis, who refuses to betray her helpless, foolish friend. In early middle age Miss Davis has a discreet affair with a naval officer ten years her junior. But he prefers Miss Hopkins' daughter, runs away with her, leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born Miriam Hopkins achieves a lethal portrayal of a lint-brained, romantic, frantically egocentric mother. Bette Davis makes...
They say you should love thy neighbor but those nasty Bow Street Boys, Mother Advocate and Junior 'Poon, have been feudin' again. It is quite a surprise, relationships on that boundary are generally as amicable as the U. S. Canada line...
Concerts may possibly be arranged with Westbrook Junior College and Bradford Junior College during the coming months, and the Glee Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society for several performances in the spring, climaxed by the annual Pension Fund Concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky on April 30. Bach's B Minor Mass will be the major work presented by the chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra...