Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further, reported Wilson, Chou said he had told the leaders of Singapore, "Mr. David Marshall and later Mr. Lim Yew Hock, that he hoped Singapore would, on achieving self-government, remain in the British Commonwealth., He had sent a similar message, through friends of Tengku Abdul Rahman, to Malaya." What was Chou's explanation for this attitude, since it was his Communist agents who, by riot and civil war, had noisily sought to drive the British "imperialists" out of Malaya? "In his view," reported Wilson deadpan, "for these countries to remain attached to their ancient allegiance would...
...Words. In December West Germany's weekly Der Spiegel took up the story. One hundred thousand members of the teachers' association demanded that Teacher Zind be brought to trial; the Baden-Württemberg parliament belatedly investigated and was told that Zind had aired similar opinions in the classroom...
...expression and social integration," can properly lead a child to learn. Is the purpose of study to beguile children or to educate future adults? "Why dramatize 'The Three Bears' in Spanish or French? ... In general, such language learning has little immediate social value. Children would derive similar enjoyment and have experience in creative self-expression were they to do this same dramatization in English...
...what is virtually an educationist manifesto: "One can be lost in admiration for hard work and high standards . . . without believing that rote learning and a heavy emphasis on past civilizations constitute the best preparation for solving modern problems." French children, says he, are interested in Latin because it is similar to their own language, because it is used in Roman Catholic churches, and because Roman ruins arouse their curiosity, but "one cannot expect an American boy to have the same interest in Latin and European history...
...increase in the total labor force over the last two months, which many people overlook in analyzing the figures. The one-month increase last February of 428,000 was abnormal for that time of year, and occurs only during recession periods; the winters of 1949 and 1954 both brought similar jumps. The reason was that most of the new "laborers" were not normally members of the labor force; they were the wives and teen-age sons and daughters of the laid-off family breadwinner, out looking for jobs to help tide the family over...