Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lesson plans were not inflexible, just a guide for substitute teachers. Worley saw it differently: "I concede the right of administrators to compel me to guard the footbridge on the day of football games, to patrol the boys' washrooms, and to supervise night basketball games. However irksome I might consider those demands, they do not trespass on the one area of education that is mine alone-the classroom. As long as my competency is accepted, I am the expert in the classroom...
Swinging a Pickax. Last year, with the Leeds area short of several hundred teachers, Educator Taylor hit on the sound idea that people in their 30s and 40s might like to switch careers. He aimed at restless mothers of teen-aged children, at bright older men with dull jobs who "feel quite desperate because their lives are being wasted." Britain's Ministry of Education pooh-poohed the idea, but Taylor persisted with a plan to set up a two-year college in a grimy, abandoned Leeds school building. This fall the unenthusiastic ministry finally agreed, and Taylor...
...brutally simple likeness of man, woman, or beast; more often it resembles nothing at all. Typical Appels invariably shock the stuffy and are treated as sacred objects by the faithful, who call him the greatest Dutch artist since Van Gogh. An uncommitted man from Shqipni or Shush might view them simply as decoration of the most exuberant sort...
Jane Todd Crawford, 47, mother of five, was sure that she was pregnant again. But though her body swelled, she felt no quickening within her. Something was wrong. Surgeon Ephraim McDowell diagnosed Jane Crawford's trouble: no pregnancy, but a tumor. Only surgery might save her. McDowell had never heard of success in abdominal surgery of such severity, to remove a tumor of this size. The year...
...Having placed her on a table of the ordinary height, on her back, and removed all her dressing which might in any way impede the operation, I made an incision . . . nine inches in length . . . extending into the cavity of the abdomen . . . The tumor then appeared full in view, but was so large that we could not take it away entire . . . We cut open the tumor [and] took out fifteen pounds of a dirty, gelatinous substance. After which we cut through the Fallopian tube, and extracted the sack, which weighed seven pounds and a half . . . The operation was completed in about...