Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manuel Quezon, 65, first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, lay in a log house at Saranac Lake, N.Y. He was listening: his physician was reading aloud from the Sermon on the Mount. Tuberculosis had almost conquered his fighting-bantam little body. But he did not believe he could die when the sun was shining, and now it was bright morning. After a while he asked that the radio be turned on. The news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then...
...World and America puts history teaching on a basis quite as informal as that of the fabled Mark Hopkins and the student on the other end of the log. It consists in easy, familiar discussions be tween a fictional businessman, Sam, and his librarian friend, George. As the series opens they are waiting for something tall and cool at the 19th hole...
...George have hit on a hobby -brushing up Sam's American history. As the series continues, Sam and George meet at Sam's house, at George's shack in the woods (this mail-order shelter quite natu rally sets them talking about the pioneer log cabin), and gradually they trace the rise of the Republic to world power and world responsibilities. A specially prepared history atlas of 17 maps is available to listeners...
...satisfied with schools as they are. Of the 43% who suggested changes, most spoke of such things as curricula, administration, equipment. Only 10% of the discontented minority wanted better paid and better qualified teachers. Approximately 96 out of every 100 Americans seem unaware of the unchallenged fact that a log with Mark Hopkins at one end of it is still a far better school than the most expensive modern classroom presided over by a mediocre teacher...
...addition to the new civilians, about 265 new V-12 men, both Freshmen and upperclassmen from other colleges and from the fleet, will log into Eliot House today and Saturday...