Word: schoolchildren
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Commencement time had come & gone again. To schoolchildren the world over it meant once more a time of haunting fears and vaunting dreams, a time when anything seemed possible. What did some of them hope for? In Soviet Russia the magazine Ogonek (The Little Light) polled a few of the 200,000 young folk ready to enter universities this year, reported their notions of what lies ahead...
...Schoolchildren got the day off. The cadet corps and the boys' band showed up from Lethbridge, and the 18th Field Regiment from Great Falls, Mont. Over a symbolic arch on the border roared U.S. and Canadian planes. The occasion was last week's opening of the new hard-surfaced highway from the border town of Coutts to Lethbridge. It was also the start of Alberta's drive for U.S. tourists. Governor General Alexander, who cut the ribbon, added that he hoped the highway "might happily serve its noble purpose...
...William Faulkner's Wild Palms (1939) and the late Ross Lockridge's Raintree County (1948) were among some 5,000 books seized by the police, who explained that they had had complaints from "parents, teachers, and ministers that these obscene books were coming into the hands of schoolchildren...
...another of Cleveland's 151 schools, whirling through classrooms, doggedly inspecting furnaces and washrooms, machine-gunning questions at janitors and principals. She has plumped for better schools and playgrounds, demanded higher wages for school employees, secured 180,000 signatures to a petition for lower streetcar fares for schoolchildren, camped in newspaper offices until editors promised help. She and her board got more money for their schools than any before them. They upped teachers' salaries $1,200 a year, established free dental clinics in schools, set up a veterans' education program...
...Buenos Aires, as the caskets were landed from a navy ship, flags flew at half-staff. Street lamps were draped in black. Along the route, as the bones of the San Martins were borne to the cathedral, thousands of schoolchildren lined the curbs. Whispered one to a neighbor: "Did you hear, pibe [chum], that next year they are going to bring back his horse...