Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
Everybody talked about the teacher shortage, but almost nobody did anything about it. Last week the National Education Association made the shortage at least seem more real by hurling a startling figure: for want of teachers, 61,750 U.S. children (mostly rural) who ought to be in school are staying home this year...
Students, parents and faculty met to "arbitrate." The town's leading citizen, Appeals Court Justice Winfield Hale wired state officials, was assured that graduating students would not be penalized for their shortcomings in teacher-shy subjects. At week's end Principal Hale had found instructors for all subjects except science, taught the class himself. Said brisk Imogene Allen, president of the student council: "Everything looks better...
Pink & Blue Beginnings. Already schooled by his father, an art teacher, Picasso went to Paris at 19 to rule, not to worship. He did go around to see the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, whom he admired enormously, "but all the same," Picasso decided, "I paint better than Lautrec." He set out to prove it and for three years painted starved, laundresses, absinthe drinkers and grave, bearded beachcombers in blue. Nowadays they seem a bit stagy and sentimental; Barr suggests that they reflect Picasso's "room without a lamp, his meals of rotten sausages, even his burning a pile...
...concluded the tall, friendly colonel, the soldier deserted because he was afraid and lacked self-confidence. The seventh-graders nodded sagely, then piped up as their teacher called for comment on the visitor's story...