Word: children
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develop visual-oral instruction in schools. "On the theory," he said, "that one picture is the equivalent of eight words" and that words uttered by college presidents are more potent than those of ordinary teachers, Mr. Fox visualized the time when 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 school children will have school hours reduced from six to three per day by listening to a talkie "educator" instead of to a teacher. Mr. Fox also planned to take talkies of famed surgeons at work and to distribute to churches pictures of religious leaders. The latter move Cineman Fox explained...
...James H. Llewellyn at a filling station; Llewellyn drew a knife: McBride shot him dead. Reporter Tsunekawa of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Reporter Saburo Suzuki of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi sat among 105 telegraphers and sent stories by direct cable to Japan. In 15 Chicago public schools children marched two by two into assembly halls, listened to broadcasting, later told their fathers, many of whom complained by letter against "miseducation.'' Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas, and a hundred other people presented tickets they...
...Breitung, Mich., one Albert Cunningham lives in a seven-dollars-per-month house with Mrs. Cunningham and 16 children. The house has three rooms. The Cunninghams sleep in groups and shifts, thus keeping all beds always occupied...
...expert in knowledge of children's courts,"-but she visits them wherever she goes...
...Presented with a dossier of records and decisions at a Manhattan children's court she cried: "This is the choicest gift I have received since I arrived...