Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oenslager '23, noted stage designer and professor of Stage Design at Yale; Dean Charles H. Sawyer of the Yale School of Fine Arts; Professor Wolfgang Stechow of Oberlin; George Wald, professor of Biology; John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and S. Lane Faison, Jr., Executive Secretary of the Committee
...machine at all. Place finishes have traditionally been determined by the place judges, who sit at the side of the pool and sight down the finish line to see who touches first. In addition, at least three timers are usually assigned to time the swimmer in each lane...
...main faults with this system are 1) that the place judges are often too far away from the winning swimmer to see exactly when he touches the wall, 2) that they must watch the whole length of the finish line rather than just one lane, and 3) that human errors often result in the same man being picked for both first and second place, or in the winning swimmer being credited with a slower time than the men he has beaten...
When he noted the below-average record of Washington children in reading and arithmetic, District of Columbia Commissioner Brigadier General Thomas A. Lane thought he knew just what was wrong and how to correct it. Integration had thrown together children of unequal preparation, he told the Washington Education Conference. West Pointer Lane's solution to the problem: a mass demotion to restore students to their proper grades...
Greater Need. Despite this state of affairs, most District educators are bitterly opposed to Commissioner Lane's demotion plan. "It is the duty of the public schools to accept children without blaming them or punishing them for their lack of intelligence or limited cultural background," said a committee of 17 school officials in a statement issued by School Superintendent Hobart M. Corning...