Word: sending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years to 4,700,100 students-one out of every eight U.S. school children. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids direct aid to church schools. Meanwhile. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant and Jewish parents who send their children to church schools) are taxed for public schools while their own growing schools need money. What should...
...agreed: "One can scarcely expect American society to help underwrite the cost of parochial education, the merits of which may be freely granted, but one of the results of which may well be the destruction of the public school system . . . Parents whose loyalty to their church leads them to send their children to parochial schools are not on that account freed from the obligation to support the public schools...
...future sociologist Martin Horwitz came up to us and said, "What worker or peasant could send his son to a private university...
...takes quite a bit of nerve," Alberg remarked, "for people to send out letters in their own behalf and not sign them, but this can be expected from members of the squirt-gun set." Long later explained that "one day, in the exuberance of spring, a member of the club brought in a water gun and we started squirting each other...
...does not take "a London particular" to send cough-racked Britons to their beds -or their graves. The tight little island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke...