Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...redeemed itself in the fact field. On See It Now (Tues. 10:30 p.m. E.D.T.), Reporter Ed Murrow turned the TV camera on Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary of the United Nations. The camera focused on a schoolroom in Abilene, Kans. Dr. Bunche was at the head of the class. He spoke simply and earnestly to his youthful listeners, as he would to intellectual equals, and made out an eloquent case for the U.N., in whose halls "every man of whatever race, color or religion holds his head equally high." Dr. Bunche was a credit...
...After graduating from the University of New Mexico in 1924, he forthwith embarked on a career that would have exhausted any other man. With a firm faith in "the perfectibility of human beings," Harrington made up his mind that a teacher's job must extend far beyond the schoolroom. "I will help anyone with anything in my power," said he, ". . . outside my own working hours...
...much violence in a schoolroom in the course of two hours might be a little hard to swallow if the boys were not undeniably credible. But they are. Their bop-talk their clothes, their faces, will be waiting right outside the theatre's entrance when you leave...
...what she saw that she is still there: a California businessman who explained how a $9,000 bequest left to his family by a longtime Negro servant was turned over to Jones; the carpenter (now a Baton Rouge contractor) who turned the sheep pen into Jones's first schoolroom. At the program's end, Edwards explained that the school was crippled by its lack of an endowment and asked his viewers to mail $1 each to Educator Jones at Piney Woods, Miss. At week's end, nearly $150,000 had poured into Piney Woods; and a Texas...
...Sapporo, the Emperor watched a schoolroom full of crippled children struggling painfully to their feet to greet him, and he bowed deeply to the children before they could bow to him. At Kushiro he ate the plain buckwheat noodles and mackerel of the local villagers. When his glasses needed wiping, he handed his straw hat to his Empress, who held it obediently...