Word: repaint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first thing Bob Wegner did was to repaint the drab classrooms green, blue and yellow, because he said the soft pastels helped students to think better. Wegner also added music, art, commercial courses, home economics and industrial arts to the study program, introduced self-government in the classrooms. At Los Alamos, teacher and students sit in a semicircle, with one of the students acting as "chairman" of the classroom discussion (it's less autocratic, Wegner says, than to have the teacher out in front "dictating" to his class...
...with all possible conveniences. Gus's house, like a thousand Cass County farmhouses, is a seven-room frame structure weathered to a faded ocher with trim the color of last year's canned peas. (Like thousands of Iowa farmers, the Kuesters are patiently waiting for supplies to repaint the house and to put in a bathroom.) A mile away the world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws or rains soften to a greasy gumbo navigable only by Dale Kuester's "mud-whoopee...
...lead eater. Many a parent knows that baby should not be given toys glorified with lead paint. But not all parents realize that children thwarted in this respect may start chewing lead paint off windowsills and other places. (Parents make a mistake when they carefully repaint cribs with lead-containing paint.) And not many doctors realize that one consequence of the plumbic passion in children may be stupidity. Last week doctors and parents learned the worst from an article in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, by Dr. Randolph Kunhardt Byers and the late Elizabeth Evans Lord, Ph.D...
Bugs. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Bill LaRose, after a losing battle against bedbugs, prepared to fumigate, repaint and repaper her sailors' rooming house. She peeled off wallpaper, found 17 $100 bills. "God bless bedbugs," said...
...years passed. Dust veneered the walls that Alexander Alexandroff would not repaint. Dirt grimed the windows that he would not wash, settled thickly on the unswept floor. Deeds, bank books, letters and records of his clients were stacked on the floor, in chronological order, the oldest on the bottom, until they towered in huge, confused piles...