Word: township
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked Principal William H. Cornog of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill.: "How free and wide-ranging should your curriculum be? Not nearly as free and loose as it has become under the pressures of a consumer approach to public education." It is high time "we make the raw assumption that it is the mind of the student with which the school is most concerned" and not with his adjustment to society. "The schools are not in business to teach anything to anyone or everything to everyone. They are not to be confused . . . with shopping centers...
Nine months ago, in the township of Harere, on the outskirts of Salisbury, capital of the Central African Federation, little Elias first mounted the pulpit-a Pepsi-Cola crate. The six-year-old boy was handsome, dignified; he exuded authority and wore shoes. His mother, in a flowing white robe, stood behind him chanting softly and clasping her hands. About them gathered a crowd of naked children, zoot-suited men and women in gaily-colored print dresses. Little Elias threw back his head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your...
...Evanston Township High...
...Trier Township High, Winnetka Indiana
Byoir admittedly paid the costs of news releases, sent out under the letterheads of the "Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors" and the Pennsylvania State Grange, attacking the bill to raise the weight limit. Byoir edited anti-truck speeches for the P.S.A.T.S.'s secretary, claimed credit for working with the Grange "to set up a special program to contact senators in doubtful counties...