Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Probably Worley would disagree with me on the subject of physical restraint in the schools, but I want him to know that I agree with him 100% on the subject of teachers' paper work, especially in the euphemistically entitled lesson plans. HAROLD A. DE PUY ex-Pearl River High School Spring Valley...
...eight other policemen surrendered. Disarmed and searched, the Indians were ordered to carry the body of the one Chinese soldier who had been killed, as well as a wounded Indian constable named Makhan Lai. After a short march, the Chinese guards insisted that Constable Lai be abandoned on a river bank. He has not been seen since...
...Australians got the first substantial electric power from their giant Snowy River hydroelectric project, an endeavor so vast that its $1 billion price tag is equal to 20% of the entire national product of ten years ago. Another signal of change: an upsurge in immigration has brought 1,500,000 hard-working "New Australians," mostly from Europe, to back the "Old Australians" in a forced-draft development of their U.S.-sized continent...
Figure Painting ($22.50). The Univer; of Oklahoma Press has a definitive sti of George Caleb Bingham, River f traitist...
...River is dominated by one of the piers for the since-completed Fort Pitt Bridge. The pier has the quality of an ancient monument, and perhaps the giant Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the whole: friendship, love and earned reward. It is a surprisingly happy picture for Koerner, but more important is the fact that in an age when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture...