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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blackboard Labor. He took a job as traveling salesman for a textbook publishing company, and it was then that he got his big idea. In classroom after classroom, he had seen children laboriously copying off spelling drills from the blackboard. From his own experience, he knew that the teacher had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Today, after 25 years, W.P.'s Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

But faced with a lien of $61,221 on back federal income taxes, Joe could well use the $300,000 or so (before taxes) a comeback fight might bring him. Charles was willing, if not enthusiastic. Said he: "Well, now, I'd like to see him stay what he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still a Good Man | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Forgotten Royalty. During the next 200 years, 37 members of the royal family were laid to rest there in hermetically sealed sarcophagi, and the tombs were untouched until the Napoleonic invasion of 1808, when French troops drove out the nuns and turned the cloister into a barracks. Later, when Wellington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

More than a quarter-century later, Snyder, now 64-year-old senior entomologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is still fascinated with the life & times of the termite. When Snyder joined the Department of Agriculture in 1909, the most up-to-date termite catalogue available was one published five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Termite Hunter | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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