Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
...Skeels told how he took 13 mentally retarded pre-school infants away from a bleak Iowa orphanage packed with healthy, intelligent moppets, and placed them in a home for feeble-minded girls. The inmates lavished upon the deficient babies a wealth of feeble-minded love. They made them toys, watched them play, gave them plenty of room to run around. Within two years, to the psychologist's amazement, the intelligence quotients of twelve of the orphans rose sharply, in some cases as much as 40 points, and they appeared superior in intelligence to their playmates in the asylum. Later...
...show gives evidence of enormous energy among U. S. artists. Less evident is their collective importance. Seldom old-fogy, often bold, they are oftener members of a school, children of an era, than unmistakable individuals. Attesting the show's variety are such pictures as Benton's quiet, lonesome Conversation; Doris Lee's whimsical, clever Holiday (see cut); Joe Hirsch's Two Men (see cut) which, using a very broad, low canvas, catches breadthwise the gaunt intensity of two workers; Jack Levine's Rouault-like Night Scene, where the ruddy heads and hands...
Last week New York City's Board of Education prepared to dismiss 6,819 teachers, shut night schools, pare many another expense. Reason: Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had cut the board's budget $3,000,000, and the State Legislature had cut another $5,300,000. As parents and teachers indignantly protested against "wrecking" of their school system, Manhattan's Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs dramatically demanded that the city's top school officials take a voluntary salary reduction of 5% to 10%, as had other city officials, including Mayor LaGuardia ($22,500), Park Commissioner Robert...
Thirty assistant superintendents and 60 high-school principals-$10,000 each...