Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study by the National Education Association shed new light on the forgotten men and women of U.S. education: some 160,000 substitute public schoolteachers-one-seventh of the nation's teaching force. The average substitute, N.E.A. discovered, is a woman, 43, married, with one or two children. She teaches 39 days (out of 180 days) in the average school year. Despite her training (usually four years of college, five years of full-time teaching) she earns only slightly more than half the pay of her full-time colleagues. Moreover, no matter what her qualifications, her average...
...waved a gloved hand. It was the Queen's first state visit to the grimy industrial county where 5,000,000 sturdy English folk spin the bulk of Britain's cotton textiles, mine a goodly share of its coal. She had come with her husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into...
Miller yesterday called the vote of the Seattle institution's faculty senate "a guarantee that the faculty will not again be ridden over rough-shed by opinionated administrators." While Miller was in Seattle on April 7, the Washington senate, by a vote of 56 to 40, condemned President Henry Schmitz' ban on talks by J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...
...letter M apparently goes back to the Chinese Luna constellation Ψwhich in old forms of Hebrew turned into Ψ The Chinese Luna station is San, which is in the solar period Virgo. The astronomical symbol for Virgo: Ψ. To Scholar Moran, all this does more than shed light on the alphabet. Says he: "We are able to trace as never before the golden thread which runs through human history from the barbarity of human sacrifice and the earliest glimmerings of a vengeful God to the highest revelation that we have of ourselves as the children...