Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning to end, there were eight days and five nights when Europe's sirens were silent. Ideally interwoven, the U.S. Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. saturated or outsmarted German defenses, kept their losses down to acceptable minimums (U.S. losses were 3% below October), gave future airmen a textbook on bombing. Down on Germany and her unhappy consorts thundered 22,170 tons of bombs. R.A.F. share: 14,500 tons; U.S. share: 7,670 tons. U.S. losses were 93 heavy bombers, six mediums, 42 fighters. The R.A.F lost 224 planes, most of them heavy bombers. On average, the R.A.F. lost...
...social textbook field for grade-school children is largely divided between Hanna's series and that of pioneer Progressive Educator Harold Rugg (TIME, Sept. 9, 1940). With a momentum built up by his high-school books since 1922, Rugg's elementary series has sold over 2,000,000 copies. Hanna's series, starting cold in 1936, is already pushing the 1,500,000 mark...
...college presidents concerned with postwar reforms in liberal education. The group favors simplifying college-entrance requirements for war veterans; reducing the importance of lectures (since many postwar students will have had richer personal experience than many a college instructor); more use of primary source materials as against textbook boning; stress on teaching rather than on research work by faculty members; increased use of individual instruction methods...
...School Tie. In Loma Linda, Calif., Dr. Edwin Lee remembered a Japanese classmate back in his college days when he finally got his missing anatomy textbook back - from Attu...
...spite of the fact that it covers only four pages, in my opinion it covers the subject sufficiently well to serve as a textbook for peace...