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Word: schoolrooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Model Schoolroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Around a crude wooden table in an austere schoolroom sat nine men: an Englishman, a Dutchman, an Indian, a Norwegian, a Czech, two Germans, and two Americans. Their debate was on a major matter: What should the Protestant churches do about the Communist attack on religious freedom in Eastern Europe? (For the Vatican's stand on the same question, see INTERNATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Surface | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Many a schoolboy has heard what Hancock reportedly said then: "There! John Bull can read my name without spectacles, and may now double his reward of ?500 for my head. That is my defiance." It was enough to make John a bona fide hero in all textbooks, engravings on schoolroom walls, and advertisements for a prominent insurance company. But obviously there was more to be said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wealthy Revolutionist | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...this schoolroom in a converted rooming house in the capital, Stalin's praises were still being sung last week-but not for long. The Kremlin had ordered the Soviet School closed, and the 45 schoolkids (children of Russian diplomats and clerks) returned to Russia. In New York and London, other Soviet youngsters had also received their marching orders. By keeping them in separate schools, the Soviet government had tried to insulate their innocents abroad from corrupt and corrupting Western ideas. Apparently Moscow now thought that the only place they would really be safe from capitalist contamination was back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: There'll Be Some Changes Made | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Detroit, School Superintendent Arthur Dondineau approved schoolroom spanking when a pupil is in need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walkout in Texas | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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