Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paint & Paper. And so he did. After months of tramping the streets, he found a ramshackle, three-story building that he thought he could afford to rent. He and his wife scrubbed it from top to bottom, then painted and papered it. Out of their thrifty life savings of $10,000 they equipped classrooms, dining room, kitchen, isolation ward and dormitories. Then they named the school Laradon Hall, after Larry and Donald...
Connecticut Author Mortimer Smith (The Life of Ole Bull) had four children of school age, but like most parents, he had never bothered to find out much about the public schools they were going to. Three years ago, he became a member of the regional high-school board for the towns of Newtown, Woodbury, Southbury and Bethlehem, and "Oh my," says he, "how my eyes were opened...
...educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society: science. According to modern educational dogma, science should be the final test of all action; all things outside it-"man's ingrained habit of setting up ethical and moral ideals, his belief that his own life must mean something and that the universe should 'make sense'"-are "prejudices...
...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...
...sleeve. Cruel, capricious Philip II was Ana's devoted friend until she became his Secretary of State's enraptured mistress; thereafter the King, out of pique and jealousy, hounded the lovers implacably. The Secretary (Torin Thatcher) escaped at last to Aragon; Ana was kept a prisoner for life in her walled-up palace in Madrid...