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Word: rebindings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn the school administration over to a one-man Superintendent, limit the Board of Education to policy making. To save money the Committee would retire teachers over 65, cut classroom hours in high schools to levels accepted in other cities, reorganize purchasing, improve accounting, economize on heat and power, rebind old textbooks, set up a typewriter repair shop. Out would go the "venerable but vicious system" whereby most school janitors operate on contract, some earn more than $11,000 annually by "subcontracting" and exploiting janitorial helpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Soap | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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