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School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard of Los Angeles did not want parents to become alarmed at any wild tales their children might tell of the new doings. So he wrote out a careful letter and gave each pupil a copy to take home. From now on, said the letter, atomic bombing drills would be a regular part of the 1950-51 school program. The drills had been thoroughly worked out, would be repeated so often "that immediate response will become a habit" (e.g., "drop immediately to the ground or floor, face down . . ."). Of course, added Superintendent Stoddard, "we sincerely hope...
Joan earned the right to compete in the champion-of-champions event when Florida Champion Clyde Wells was unable to make the trip. Joan was runner-up to Wells this year. Her coach, Fred Etchen, once a pupil of the great Annie Oakley and captain of the 1924 U.S. Olympic trapshoot team, was inclined to regard Joan's Annie Oakley feat as a fluke. "It wouldn't happen again in a thousand years," he said. In the 51 years of the Grand American Trapshoot, certainly, nothing like it had ever happened before...
Much of Susruta's knowledge was lost to the world for centuries. Not until the 17th Century was the true position of the lens (directly behind the pupil, with no intervening "cataract space") rediscovered; not until the 18th Century was a whole defective lens removed. Over the centuries, Dr. Kirby found, the number of instruments invented for the removal of cataracts (e.g., a glass tube and a hollow needle to withdraw the cataract by suction; a metal loop to flip it out) rivaled the number of operations performed...
Witty and his assistants had had to do quite a bit of translating, to turn pupil-talk into teacher-talk. But they had settled on twelve qualities of a good teacher...
...never makes fun of any pupil before the class...