Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better Learning reports on a project which has been in the works for four years: exposing secondary school pupils to current materials, a phrase which educators use to describe magazines, newspapers, radio recordings, and kindred study helps-as distinguished from textbooks. The book compares the progress of these students with similar groups which made little or no use of current materials...
...California Council is a voluntary organization of teachers who were in at the beginning of the experiment, became so enthusiastic about it that they devoted their own time to writing this handbook on the use of current materials for their fellow-teachers everywhere-and TIME Inc. is proud to have played a small part in their project...
...fourth year, there is overwhelming evidence that the purposes of the study are being achieved. To my knowledge, this is the first comprehensive experiment which, by actually checking results, year after year, has proved the use of current materials to be of definite help, not only in social studies, but in English, mathematics, science and many other subjects...
...between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...
...Always carry the daily papers when on the prowl early in the evening ... it looks like a person coming home from the office . . . wear Moose, Elks or K.C. ring . . . Pose as blind with dog and dark glasses while prowling . . . use white skins of eggs over eyeballs . . . Good clothes to be inconspicuous . . . live in best hotels ... It is easy to commit a crime, as the police never prevent ... Do not lose the sense of danger while prowling ... on the day a criminal decides he is smarter than the police, he moves that much closer ... to capture...