Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME does not make clear whether it is expressing editorial opinion or quoting Harvard's eminent Conant when it says, "teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession," teachers know too little about their subject matter, too little about children, too little about social conditions, and teachers "don't like children." TIME views as "alarming" the state of ignorance of America's million teachers, condescendingly admits that teaching "is an honorable profession" (as though anyone doubted it) and goes on to say that the 100,000 youngsters who begin preparation for teaching each year...
...matter how "rank" your movie reviews may be, they rank one step ahead of the movies they rank...
...that did not settle the matter. In the Riksdag a member named Herr Wallén (who just a short while before had an nounced himself the Parliament's first anti-Semite) arose and berated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson on the matter of the plan (airplane). In the course of his harangue, Member Wallén let slip details about the plane which no one else knew and which showed that he had been talking with Nazis. The Prime Minister at once condemned the whole thing as a German plan (scheme) against Sweden's Left ist Government...
Because spins from stalls cause most of the amateur flying accidents (466 in four years) CAA's most important requirement was that the new ship must neither fall off nor spin from stalls no matter how flown. Other specifications: pilots must be able to slam on brakes at any landing speed without fear of nosing over; the plane must be manageable on the ground in winds up to 30 miles an hour; preferably it should be steered like an auto mobile, have no rudder bar. The only other thing expected of it, joked veteran fliers, was that it should...
...Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his own blimp, collect jigsaw puzzles, jiggle pocketfuls of diamonds, buy "anything that snapped," maintained residences at one time or another in all four States. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court settled the matter by deciding that $5,000,000 should go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because Colonel Green "spent more time there than at any other place." One of the two Supreme Court dissenters: Felix Frankfurter, newest member of the Court who until his appointment last January was a Massachusetts resident...