Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which schoolchildren now memorize...
...Alaska: 1) Harold Le Clair Ickes & Bride accepted carved totem pole pins from Indian schoolchildren at Ketchikan; 2) Senator Reynolds of North Carolina slew a 3,000-lb. bull walrus which, wounded, charged his hunting party's boats off Wainwright...
...Stuart Erwin, oldtime silent-film Adventuress Kathlyn Williams, others donated checks from $10 to $100. Some 700 animals in the Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought the cheering prospect that for the first time Zoopark would have not only horsemeat and hay for its animals but leftover gravy for its treasury...
Beneath the latest Red scares about Granville Hicks, the Cambridge schoolchildren and the Young Communists lies a serious defect in the University Administration. Harvard tends to be so sure that what it is doing is right that it ignores the publicity angle of its actions and allows itself to be grievously misrepresented. The result of such a policy is to seen in this week's papers, with all the politicians and patriots in full cry after the Red menace, and all sorts of organizations passing resolutions against the college. It cannot be denied that in Massachusetts at present there...
This report, American Recommended Practice of School Lighting, was based on a study sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society and American Institute of Architects. It declared many schoolchildren had so little light for their work that they suffered from eyestrain, irritability, headaches. Even on a bright day children in the darkest part of a classroom may get only five foot-candles,* one-twentieth as much light as those near the windows, and on a dark day illumination of their desks may drop as low as one footcandle. The investigators claimed tests showed children did 28% better in reading when they...