Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost every rural public school in Kansas last week, at 2:15 in the afternoon, the schoolchildren were shushed into silence by their teachers, then heard from a loudspeaker...
Last week a new company, Young America Films Inc., stepped into the still uncrowded field. Its head is energetic Stuart Sheftel, 34-year-old publisher of Young America magazine (circ. 400,000 schoolchildren) and co-founder of a chain of newsreel theaters. Young America is the first filmmaker with the audacity to promise movie courses for every class from kindergarten through high school. It will offer a three-part package: a one-reel short for $25, summing up the course, a "strip film" of pictures and diagrams tied to a popular textbook in the field, and a what...
Along Fifth Avenue and in the high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
Hewing to the propaganda line of universal, suicidal resistance, Japan's Domei news agency last week reported a new band of self-liquidating heroes. This time, Domei said, the "special attackers" were schoolchildren on Aka Island, in the Kerama group, who rushed at U.S. invaders, "blasting themselves with hand grenades." Too deeply moved for prose, the newspaper Mainichi published this elegy...
...between there are reminiscent essays, a travel sketch, essays on English heroes and English character, reprints of the author's literate radio broadcasts to English schoolchildren. Professor Rowse says that when he came to collect his writings he was surprised to find the strong and consistent theme that ran through them-"something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things . . . for our tradition itself and the literature in which it is expressed and handed on." It is likely to inspire much the same emotion in President Roosevelt (most of whose ancestors were English, not Dutch...