Word: homework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homework. In Sidney, Neb., Merle E. Faulkner explained to police how he happened to be carrying an uprooted parking meter on his shoulder: he had been having a little trouble pilfering its hoard and had decided to work on it at his leisure elsewhere...
When Political Scientist Benjamin Fletcher Wright of Harvard University was appointed president of Smith College (TIME, March 21), he had a reservation: he was afraid he did not know enough about women's education. "I've got to do some homework," said he. Last week at his inauguration (which coincided with Smith's 75th anniversary celebration), President Wright showed how far his homework had taken him. He jumped right into the biggest question of all: What should women be educated...
...spite combining housework with homework, the Missus at Radcliffe has one up academically on her unmarried classmates. Not a single married student now in the College or in last year's graduating class ranked below Group Five, Dean's Office listings show...
...current-materials boys & girls reported that it was much easier to get their fathers and mothers to help them with their homework...
Another aid to Kiner's hitting is his movie camera and projector. Part of his homework is studying slow-motion pictures of himself at bat, looking for telltale hitches, lunges and hesitations. At the first sign of any break in his smooth-flowing style he goes to work on himself. Unlike most contemporary sluggers, Kiner digs into a wide-legged stance at the plate and takes almost no stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into...