Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II headquarters of the Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces in Bushey Park, England-it is now a schoolroom-a plaque was unveiled one day last week that read: "A great man passed this way in defense of freedom. He showed the capacity for making great nations march together more truly united than ever before." Elsewhere in Britain, however, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his countrymen were having an unusually rough time of it. The stately Times feared "a Britain united in anti-Americanism-and there is a growing danger of this . . ." The less stately Sunday Times talked...
...Lincolnian dictum of doing for people the things they can't do well themselves, but to avoid interference where people can do things for themselves." The Federal Government should support social security and unemployment insurance, foster health research, overcome emergency schoolroom shortages, keep the dollar sound. Beyond these duties is a barrier: "The partnership policy of which we speak is to give the maximum responsibility into the hands of local and state governments to run their own affairs...
Education School teacher trainees and members of the Summer School Conference on Educational TV watched a closed-circuit telecast of a Newton schoolroom session yesterday morning as the Harvard Graduate School of Education went into the second day of an experiment in educational television...
...Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart Set (1914-23) and the old American Mercury (1924-33). He took out after U.S. criticism, which he said "smells of the pulpit, the chautauqua, the schoolroom...
...prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment on NBC's Wide, Wide World also had a medical background, as the camera moved into a Baltimore schoolroom to record the moving responses of deaf children to the rhythms of music communicated through their fingertips...