Word: kindergartener
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Fifty nursery school children start the day's program with kindergarten from 9 to 12. The blind come early in the afternoon, and neighborhood children turn up shortly after 3 p.m. to play under supervision, learn handicrafts, or attend cooking and sowing classes...
...were like sheep's eyes, her puny thighs terminated in doughnut knees. But the picture's very crudeness gave it drama. Backed into a dark corner, the body was startlingly white. At first glance the brush work might seem clumsy as a calligraph drawn in a Chinese kindergarten, but it made space of the flat paper, and crammed it with fat, interlocked sausages of light...
...Austerity Diet. But when Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Los Angeles one morning last week, she seemed no more disturbed than a veteran kindergarten teacher who has heard a little minor scuffling in the back of the room. She greeted both Jimmy and Helen with cries of matriarchal affection and rode off to Jimmy's Beverly Hills mansion with them as tranquilly as if she were taking both to be fitted with teeth braces and sensible shoes...
...Abraham Lincoln was running the war badly, she rushed off to Washington to tell him so. Satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was really the man for the job, she directed her energies into good works for distressed Negro children. At 66, Spinster Liz started the nation's first public kindergarten. She was past 80 when she went to Washington to lobby for mistreated Indians, just short of 90 when she died, her mind busy with women's emancipation and machinery for world peace...
...children loved it. Soon, other Matsui books and magazines followed-Playmate for the kindergarten ages, Blue Skies for teen-age girls, reprints of the world's classics, textbooks and histories. Matsui mixed entertainment with education, plugged for democracy and world understanding. "Japan," began one of his histories, "is really a beautiful country . . . But if we look out at the broad world, we will find all sorts of high mountains and great rivers . . . bustling cities and differing customs which we could not see in our own country." Matsui quickly won the admiration and support of the Ministry of Education...