Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation from Washington. To crucial Pennsylvania-for which Harry Hopkins last fortnight authorized 10,000 new WPA jobs-went Postmaster General Farley to warn a $100-a-plate dinner in Philadelphia that nothing could so comfort Republicans as to win back Pennsylvania, which they lost four years ago. Result in funds raised...
...Progressive school, children also spend part of their time dancing, singing, making musical instruments, telling stories. Instead of doing calisthenics, they play games. Result of all this is that a modern Progressive school is noisy, apparently chaotic, but pupils are too busy to be naughty. When they are naughty or sulky, they are sent not to a be-ferruled principal but to a psychiatrist, who tries to find out what is wrong at home...
...concerned with the social order. Opposed are those who are chiefly concerned about individual development. Recently Progressive Education's No. 1 present-day philosopher, Ohio State's gaunt Professor Boyd Henry Bode, in a book called Progressive Education at the Crossroads, declared that nothing but chaos could result from exclusive attention to children's individual needs, interests and learning. Progressive schools, he insisted, must lead their pupils to oppose dictatorship and make democracy "a way of life," and he defined democracy as "continuous extension of common interests...
...Baton Rouge, Louisiana State and Vanderbilt, two of the South's strongest powerhouses, held one another scoreless until almost the last minute. Then the home team suddenly set off fireworks. Result: Vanderbilt's first defeat of the season...
Died. Harry Arista Mackey, 65, one-time (1928-31) mayor of Philadelphia; as the result of an automobile accident; in Philadelphia. While he was mayor he sometimes disguised himself in tatters and false whiskers to wander at night among the city's poor and jobless...