Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal in its present form calls for the sending of Delhi students into five rural villages for the four-fold purpose of 1) making a thorough survey of each town's social and economic needs, 2) teaching adults to read and write, 3) helping and supervising village construction work, and 4) loading community recreational activities...
...there are many puzzles the boys could not solve. But after four years they did collect enough data for Teacher Moore to write a learned paper. Last week Clayesmore got its reward: its final report-"Some Observations on the Migration of the Toad (Bufo Bufo Bufo)"-filled the entire current issue of no less a publication than the British Journal of Herpetology. Said Headmaster D. P. M. Burke proudly: "A valuable educational experience. Just the sort of thing we are trying to encourage at Clayesmore." Next project for the boys: the autumn migration of the toad...
...Americas), novelist (Death of Kings); of cancer; in Ciboure, France. Wertenbaker directed TIME'S coverage of the Normandy beachhead, was among the first newsmen to enter liberated Paris, received the Medal of Freedom from the U.S. Army for "exceptionally meritorious achievement." In 1948 he retired to write fiction...
There are three writing Sitwells: Edith, Sacheverell and Osbert; and the best of them is Edith. She is a poet (she hates to be called a poetess) and a good one, possibly a great one. Three English universities have dubbed her Doctor, her sovereign has made her a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, her poetry readings in the U.S. are well attended, and Hollywood has hired her to write the film script for her own book on Queen Elizabeth I. Now published for the first time in the U.S. are her Collected Poems (Vanguard...
...manner seem theatrical and deliberate, they also have the genuineness that only a true eccentric can give them. And if her readings, electrifying as they are, often seem stagy, a look at the printed poems will restore the balance in favor of respect for the lady who can write...