Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyman Lemnitzer was a major who had taken fullest advantage of the educational system by which the Army developed its peacetime professional officer corps to an astonishing level of efficiency. He had taught physics and allied subjects at West Point, was a graduate of the Command and General Staff School and the Army War College, and was accounted one of the Army's finest staff officers...
...expected that the Martin Public School site at Huntington Avenue and Worthington Street will be voted May 18 into the status of "no longer needed for schooling purposes" by the Boston School Committee...
...projected medical library will act as the nucleus of the Center, upon its completion, and will probably be the most modern medical library in America. A recent gift of $3.5 million by Miss Sandra Countway, plus other substantial donations to the Medical School Fund Drive, have made it possible for the University to consider immediate action on the estimated $7.5 million library project...
Dealing with subjects as homely as breakfast, gossip, and walking home from school, actors are very likely to betray the fact they are acting, but this presentation of the adult world of Grovers Corners was nearly flawless. Wilder's characters remind you of people you know, despite differences in dress and accent. And the cast, especially Dixi DeWitt (Mrs. Webb) and Edward O'Callahan (Dr. Gibbs) made these characters real, in Wilder's sense of universal types...
...girl's position as far as education is concerned is expected to be more flexible than that of her husband. The man can concentrate his education with a career in mind: his wife must usually adapt hers to him. Consequently, it is better that the girl come out of school with a wide-ranging background (even at the expense of its being a little nebulous) rather than emerging a rigidly intellectually formed botanist or medieval philosopher or drama critic or anything else...