Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a dreary situation affords condemning testimony in the case for public education. When education must bow to the whims of an ideologically confused and sub-college citizenry, it can never equal the standards of private education. There will always be the wishes, tastes, and fears of Opinion to consider, the Public that wants education to grow, but only within the mold of its own image...
...booster" for Hall, and even if he is the only one, he pulls a lot of weight. Moreover, it is a pretty rare thing when a President, and particularly President Eisenhower, puts on the pressure. Mr. Roosevelt, a former Governor of New York, learned how to do his pressuring sub rosa, and Mr. Hall has probably learned the same technique. But Ike, an affable fellow, hasn't. He has thrown himself right into the middle of a nice, friendly fight in the Empire State, and it seems unlikely that he will emerge unscathed. Without Mr. Hall, whom the President praised...
This movie has been kicking around the States since 1950, when it was imported from England. Time has improved neither the originally poor lighting of the black-and-white film nor the fuzziness of the sound. The latter condition, along with the thickness of the accents, might even make sub-titles desirable Even though "Tight Little Island" is not often uproariously funny, seeing it is a pleasant enough way to spend an evening...
Thirty-three years ago a young Englishwoman asked to do graduate study in astronomy at Harvard. The Chairman of the Physics Department, of which astronomy was then a sub-division, was reluctant to admit her, saying he didn't want any women in his department. "But after all," the now middle-aged mother of three explains, "I had come all the way from England and they couldn't just send me home...
Shaplin points out that the Committee had never discussed whether it wanted junior athletics, or competitive sports below the high school level, although the majority had tacitly approved the policy by appointing junior hockey coaches. It is true that sub-masters, responsible for playground supervision and vague paper work, had formerly been employed by the Committee, but even these had been dropped several years ago. Sub-masters were considered necessary 50 years ago when the school enrollment far exceeded its present size, and were accordingly discontinued when the number of students decreased. Now the principals need secretaries to attend...