Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They Spell? If Progressive educators are idealists, they are at least shrewd enough not to give their opponents tangible ammunition. They do not leave their pupils' progress in reading, writing and reckoning entirely to projects and chance but come down on their youngsters with concentrated individual drill in those subjects when necessary. They have also given much attention of late to testing their pupils, giving an accounting of Progressive Education's results...
...labeled by many newspapermen as "too idealistic to succeed." They older systems of education were idealistic, but today's keynote is realism. This changed viewpoint is the reason why many alumni taught under the older system wail loudly at the glaring lack of interest in culture at present. The spell-binders of yore are disappearing in the teaching ranks as surely as the undergraduate "dabbler" of the nineties. Harvard education is in the throes of a catharsis, and the University must expect to defend itself from the attacks of those who have been through a less concentrated fire...
...slim, dapper 36-year-old who has gained national publicity through his prosecution of big-city rackets (72 convictions, one acquittal, one mistrial). The mistrial in his crowning case against Jimmy Hines, alleged Tammany protector of the "numbers" racket (TIME, Sept. 19), gave his partisans a last-minute sinking spell. But they felt that public opinion blamed Justice Ferdinand Pecora (a Democrat) more severely for his ruling than Prosecutor Dewey for the question which evoked it.** Last week, amid cheers, they brought him on-stage to begin an onslaught which they hoped might start a national Republican resurgence...
...Airlines got Civil Aeronautics Authority permission to waive its franchise, then asked other airlines to help out. United Air Lines, Eastern Airlines and Transcontinental & Western Air pitched in. When at week's end railroad grades and highways were got back into shape, other lines retired after the busiest spell of flying U. S. airlines had ever undertaken...
Thus did the semifinalists in the U. S. Singles tennis championships (men's & women's) spend their time last week while an unprecedented rainy spell held up the semi-finals at Forest Hills for six days. As jittery contestants champed at the bit, U. S. tennis fans mused over nine days of the dullest top-flight tennis since women played in ankle-length flannel skirts and panama hats...