Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school located at or near the center of a natural community, the resultant of a combination of a number of smaller schools each of which has given up its identity as an administrative school unit, maintaining full-grade and high-school courses. Offering a diversified curriculum, housed in a modern plant equipped for giving effectively the courses offered, transporting to and from school by safe and sanitary methods the pupils that live too far from the school building to walk, a,nd functioning as a center for community activities...
Readers of Mr. Abel's Bulletin will probably be surprised to learn that the idea of consolidation and transportation is 80 years old. But they will hardly be surprised to learn that New England, and particularly Massachusetts, generated the idea. The town, or township, was the first unit to displace the unsatisfactory "district." In New England, where the town was the unit of local control in all departments of life, districts were abolished as early as 1840; and in 1869 the first step towards community transportation of pupils was taken...
...Those in which the town or township unit has been a considerable factor in consolidation. These include New England, Michigan, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, North Dakota...
These instructions called for organization here of "the workers of the large industries" into "units of ten" to meet once a week to study revolutionary propaganda, each unit of ten to have a "fighting unit of not less than three men" to be given weekly instruction in the use of firearms and in sapping. The instructions concluded with the hope that "the party will step by by step embrace the proletarian forces of America and in the not distant future raise the red flag over the White House...
MOSCOW ART THEATRE?The most distinguished unit of the Continental theatre in repertory...