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Word: surveyals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give adequate answers to its children's sex questions. U. S. high schools, the Commission on Human Relations later found, which receive Youth at the age when the sex problem is most insistent, have made slight progress in the past 17 years toward providing this information. In a survey by the U. S. Public Health Service and American Social Hygiene Association in 1920, only 8% of the nation's high schools reported they gave coordinated sex instruction; eight years later only 10% did so. The commission, ten years after, convinced that the missing information had not yet been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Books v. Tunnel | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Understanding Without Stars | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...world as "really a Ruin, a Mess, a Wreck." Its restoration represents "what could be done with the Ruin." Interesting for its contrast with Author Adamic's earlier thoughts on the best way to clear "the Ruin" (as set forth in his first book, Dynamite, a historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less naïve. As a device for jarring the reader out of that slightly dreamy state induced by travel books, the theory, coming where it does in The House in Antigua, is indisputably effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The House in Antigua | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Outstanding new courses this year will be a survey of Shakspere's dramatic career, given by Theodore Spencer, Assistant Professor of English; and the history of American Literature, by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIETY OF SUBJECTS WILL BE OFFERED TO BOSTONIANS THIS YEAR | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...comprehensive survey of the various movements in modern painting will be conducted by James S. Plaut, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, dealing mainly with French painters of the nineteenth century, as well as with European forerunners of modernism, and current painting in Europe and America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIETY OF SUBJECTS WILL BE OFFERED TO BOSTONIANS THIS YEAR | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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