Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet instruction is based on the three elements, nature study, labor activity, and sociology," said Dr. Lloyd Storr-Best in his talk on Education in Soviet Russia at the Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Storr-Best, who has been carrying on investigations in Russia for the British Government, went on to say, "Russian children are taught agriculture and the phenomena of every day natural life in addition to the problems of labor and of their own social relations...
...most notable feature of the Soviet education is that no subjects, in our sense of the word, are taught. Instead of teaching arithmetic, history, or geography, as such, they bring problems which have a practical application before the class, who then pick up a knowledge of the conventional western subjects through a study of these problems in all their aspects Thus they learn arithmetic by counting the pens in the school room and later by working on the accounts and financial problems of the class...
...Bruce: "It is not the Senator from Maryland, but the Senator from Idaho, who wishes us to recognize the Soviet government...
...north, cross arms." The gapers lifted their arms uncrossed. The nearest railway station was that of a village near Riga, in Latvia. That evening, 12 hours behind schedule, the Norge loomed through the dusk and was hauled into a hangar near the Gatchina Palace, outside of Leningrad. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers had to struggle in three feet of snow to get her berthed...
...gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary blessing (and a check for $1,100 to help the sheet get started). The current Passaic garmentworkers' strike was recorded...