Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, realize that "they have a stake in the industries for which they work," I.I.I, is publishing the first of eleven books on local industries-their growth, what they make, how they make it, etc. Schools have agreed to use them as supplementary texts. I.I.I, is now preparing a manual of jobs available for graduating seniors, to be followed up by talks by industrialists to plug the theme that local opportunities are "as good as any in the U.S." In the works for moppets (and their seniors): a 16-page comic book on free enterprise...
Tuition Plus Labor. Besides a nominal tuition fee, students must contribute two days of manual labor each semester to clearing away rubble and doing repair work. The winter term (which used to run until March) now starts earlier, stops at Christmas. With not enough coal to heat classrooms, students wear dyed Wehrmacht overcoats to cold-weather lectures; a chilling wind seeps through the cracks or whistles through the holes in bombed-out walls. (Windows are fixed with "Hitler glass," a kind of cellophane Hallstein acidly describes as "one of the big gifts this man gave to the German people...
Stepinac, with a capacity of 1,360 students, does offer everything, from manual training to a radio studio. When fully staffed, it will have 54 priests-more than the total number of ordained clergymen in many a U.S. Episcopal diocese. Each priest has a comfortable parlor-bedroom-&-bath of his own on the penthouse level of the school. On Sundays the priests will help out in Westchester parishes and get to know the parents of their pupils. The parents will also be invited to school functions, including the evening dances and roller-skating parties in the gym. "Westchester...
Wrapped up as a parody of a sportsman's manual, this is a very funny little book, but like some other funny books, it is a work of curious ferocity. Social discomfiture as a sport has never been so blandly exposed...
...U.S.C., was too wise to monkey with Patton's basic style of running. After one look at him, he decided that what the kid needed most was time to develop. Pursell kept him on the "B" squad as long as he dared (until Mel ran a 10.2 against Manual Arts High one day). Then the coach began to rub OR some polish...