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Word: porters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Machines might even be used to emphasize personal relationships in education, Douglas Porter, instructor in Education, indicated. Besides sparing the teacher the time involved in correcting papers or in teaching mechanics like multiplication or spelling, the machines does unpleasant tasks. It tells pupils when they are wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educators State Devices Will Not Replace Teacher | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

Thurs., Nov. 20 Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter's triumphant reworking of Young Will's Taming of the Shrew; with Alfred Drake and Pa tricia Morison from the original Broad way cast, plus Julie Wilson, Bill Hayes and Harvey Lembeck to add a few grace notes. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

FREDERICK PORTER Long Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Among novelists, James Hanley, 57, is a rare bird of dark plumage. A child of the Dublin slums, he educated himself between odd jobs (railway porter, cook, butcher, postman), went to sea and found no romance in it. His history and temperament have preserved him from the British novelist's preoccupation with class and the detail of social life. He writes with no special idiom or accent about the human condition. Hanley has been obsessed by his purblind Furys for a quarter of a century. (This volume is the fifth installment of their saga, the third to be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Purblind Furies | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...hazards to the cyclists which exist as a result of inconsistent traffic and parking regulation enforcement as well: Double-parking, which is rampant, forces the cyclist to swerve out into the street into the traffic. This is particularly bad on Massachusetts Avenue near Plympton Street and further out towards Porter Square in the neighborhood of Sacremento Street. The "twenty feet from the island" regulation is not enforced and this again causes a severe and hazardous bottleneck. Finally, the idiot who opens his car door into traffic is a menace both to himself and to others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan's Bikes | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

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