Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stern. In schoolroom demonstrations, an electromagnetic force is produced by passing electric current through a wire or other conductor suspended in a magnetic field. The current generates a magnetic field around the wire that pushes against the field of the magnet. In an electric motor, current flowing through the armature reacts in the same way against a magnetic field generated by electromagnets. The resulting push, or torque, turns the rotor...
...cities, and the "foreign-aid giveaway to every Hottentot country in the world." He promised that, if elected, he would cut taxes, give teachers a $500 pay raise and schoolchildren free textbooks, and bring more industry into the state. He also promised to bring prayers back to the schoolroom. "We're going to pray in our schools in this state," he declared, "and I don't believe Lyndon Johnson would have the guts to send troops down here to try to keep us from it." He quoted the Bible, ended his speeches with a sincere "God bless...
...Front Office," comprised of 2,800 registered representatives, or "customers' men," who retail stocks and account for 65% of Merrill Lynch's business. The firm selects one of every 15 sales applicants, trains him for seven months in a program that includes McCarthy, Leness and Thomson as schoolroom lecturers. It pays salesmen a salary that is now at a median of $18,000 but ranges upwards of $200,000 for real stars. To discourage "churning"?the unnecessary turnover of stocks in a customer's account as a way of earning fees?Merrill Lynch, unlike most brokerage houses, does...
...Luci obviously had no intention of offending her mother's denomination, she was shaken by the outcry. Last month, in the White House solarium that has served her as study, sanctuary, party room and private meeting place with Pat-it had previously been Caroline Kennedy's nursery-schoolroom-Luci sat on a well-broken-in sofa, tucked her legs beneath her, and allowed that the baptismal storm had after all wafted Pat her way. "I didn't know what to do," she explained. "I was frightened. Lynda and my mother were away. So Pat said...
...satanic chant, the horrifying words can hardly he heard at all. But J. Thomas Sullivan as Miles is so good an actor, looks so angelic, and sounds so pure, that his scenes are very moving even though we often have to strain to hear. His song in the schoolroom is a weird blending of dewy innocence and dark corruption. Carolyn Stouffer, Mrs. Grose the housekeeper, tends to be shrill, and her diction is sometimes muddy, in contrast to the rest of the cast. Carlotte Wilsen, as the ghostly Miss Jessel can be both terrifying, when she calls to Flora...