Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teach five classes a day," she said, "a total of 176 students. Under these circumstances, I can barely cover the subject matter of my courses, let alone give my students the individual attention they need." In addition, she presides an hour each day over the study hall. She is chairman of the student assembly, chairman of the School Spirit Committee, "homeroom" adviser for 35 students, coach for junior class plays, chairman of the faculty social committee...
Just who would replace these emergency teachers, N.E.A. did not say. The U.S. Office of Education reported that most high schools should be able to get all the teachers they need this fall. But of this year's crop of 54,000 new teachers, only 20,000 are qualified to teach elementary grades...
...need Thy help to do something about the world's true problems-the problem of lying, which is called propaganda; the problem of selfishness, which is called self-interest; the problem of greed, which is often called profit; the problem of license, disguising itself as liberty; the problem of lust, masquerading as love; the problem of materialism, the hook which is baited with security...
With both hands firmly clenched around a newly fashioned club, President Truman assured the jittery steel industry last week that there was no need to duck-yet. He "did not consider it appropriate" to invoke the drastic powers to control steel which the Republican Congress had unwittingly given him in a sleeper amendment to the draft act (TIME, July 5). Instead, the President asked the Department of Commerce to work out a voluntary allocation program to take care of military needs for steel...
...reasons were plain. The defense program needed only about 2% of anticipated steel production this fiscal year, and will need less than 3% in the following. For the sake of efficiency, the President assigned the job of filling such relatively small needs to the Department of Commerce, which is already supervising a number of voluntary programs, instead of to the Secretary of Defense, as he could have done under the new law. But he warned: "I have given serious consideration to the problems posed by this legislation. I am, of course, prepared to exercise this authority should it prove necessary...