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Word: unesco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fischelis recently returned from a today organizational trip to Europe. While there, he met with officials of the High Commission, UNESCO, and University groups in Berlin, Geneva, Paris, and London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Gains Direction Of Seminar in Germany | 4/14/1951 | See Source »

...illiterate backlands of the small (574 sq. mi.) state of Delhi this winter, UNESCO and the Indian government have been working on a pilot education plan designed to bring literacy and modern farming methods to India's unlettered masses. Auto trailers, loaded with exhibits, stop in every village for a three-day show. The villagers get simple demonstrations of modern methods of poultry-breeding, cattle-raising and plowing. Moreover, though the trailer crews move on, they leave behind in each village a stack of books and a temporary squad of teachers. Aim: nothing less than 100% literacy among Delhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Double Your Money | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...lessons that UNESCO and the Indian government learn from this experiment in the next two years are to be applied elsewhere in India as quickly as the means allow. The guiding spirit of the whole plan: Duane Spence Hatch, 60, UNESCO adviser, an enthusiastic, hardworking American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Double Your Money | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Last week Duane Hatch's work was still spreading: the Ceylon government is starting a similar project with UNESCO help, has asked for Double-Your-Money Hatch to head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Double Your Money | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...high-soaring charter laid in a frame of thought and expressed in a UNESCO-like lingo that probably would have outraged well-ballasted old Henry Ford, who always mistrusted charity anyway. But with Paul Hoffman's clear-eyed business head, and the trustees' broad-gauge faith, it had a good chance of coming down to earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: Faith & Charity | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

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