Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of special student tours of the museum, during school hours, for the study of subjects ranging from frontier Christmases to pioneer medicine. He took down the "Do Not Touch" signs, unlocked his glass cases, brought out his guns, pioneer medical instruments and candle molds. If schoolchildren could handle these trophies and "hold history in their hands," he reasoned, the past might come alive for some of them...
...have been folding up at the rate of twelve a day for 30 years, there are still 75,000 left. They account for nearly one-half of all U.S. public-school buildings, employ one-twelfth of U.S. teachers, have an enrollment of one-sixteenth (1,500,000) of U.S. schoolchildren...
Hungary's socialized candy industry last week polled "elite schoolchildren" to find out just how to flavor the new "Elite Pupil" candy bar (target for the first year of the Five-Year Plan: 1,000,000). The children sampled bars of orange, vanilla and rum flavors. The country kids liked vanilla; those in Budapest, rum. So there will be two kinds. Said a Communist official of the candy trust: "Candies are no longer the monopoly of the wealthy capitalist children...
...Others: "Professor" Friedrich Bhaer, who married one of Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women; James Whitcomb Riley's "Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., T-Y-TY." The TYTY was a bit of Riley humor. Since schoolchildren used to spell by syllable (e.g., PURITY, p-u-r-PUR; iI; t-y-TY), the alphabet after the "perfesser's" name brought forth from Riley the old classroom response...
...last week the question of selling the Pieta had become a national issue. Newspapers and radio comedians took it up. Thirty-five country schoolchildren in northern Italy had contributed 500 lire (90?) "towards a national fund wherewith to purchase the Pieta." But so far the best offers were a paltry $90,000 from the Italian government, $400,000 from a Milanese industrialist who hoped to place the Pieta over Michelangelo's tomb in Florence's Church of Santa Croce, but only if he could get the statue taxfree...