Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughters of tough tenement dwellers, she has seen those theories tried out in most parts of the civilized world, on the rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published a book* designed to spread her doctrines to parents-especially the parents of children of pre-school age. Parents who read it will find that she knocks some accepted notions of child-raising into a very queerly-shaped...
...MacDonald last May presented to Parliament a White Paper that Jews angrily attacked as a betrayal of the pledge to maintain a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. The British guaranteed Palestine Arabs a permanent majority position in Palestine, with promises of ultimate independence. Jewish immigration was limited to 75,000 spread over the next five years, after which it will be prohibited...
...eventually land them in Chungking-resulted in the greatest Chinese success of the war since they defeated the Japanese at Taierchwang in the spring of 1938. Opposing the 100,000 Japanese was the crack Kwangsi Army of General Li Tsung-jen, hero of Taierchwang. General Li caught the Japanese spread out in the North Hupeh hills, threw them back with a loss of 27,000 men. Significantly, no farther than three or four miles back of the Japanese lines in this battle Chinese guerrillas were busy harassing Japanese communications...
...bashed in, but the skull is otherwise in excellent shape, the jaws and teeth almost complete. Said Dr. Hrdlicka: "We had been hoping, but hardly daring to hope, for some such discovery, and now this young Soviet archeologist has done it. It shows that Neanderthal Man was widely spread over the Old World. For the first time it gives us evidence of a culture extending clear across Europe to the Far East...
...sensible program of small museumship yet formulated in the U. S. This program took shape 30 years ago when the Museum was created as an adjunct to the Newark Public Library by an extraordinary librarian, the late John Cotton Dana. Dana's fame as a museum director has spread farther and wider ever since...