Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There are a few of us public-school teachers . . . still trying to hold out against the pragmatists and experimentalists who would make of public education a glorified vocational training period and hobby show, who would seek to make of school life a series of artificial experiences designed to "mold the child to his environment...
...Before you leave," he said to Secretary Acheson, "would you like to make any comment about the Alger Hiss convic tion of perjury?" The Secretary paused a moment on the fateful cue. "Senator, I was not notified that I would have to make any comment," he replied. "If the committee wishes me to explain what I said, I'll do it. I have no desire to do it." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a prepared state ment, and an aide behind him began pass ing out mimeographed texts to newsmen in the room. His hands trembling...
Last week the House: ¶After 34 years of thinking about it, voted (186 to 146) to make Alaska the 49th state in the union, then approved Hawaii's 30-year-old appeal for statehood (which it had approved and the Senate had rejected in the 80th Congress). ¶| Approved a bill establishing a National Science Foundation, after first insisting on an FBI check for all employees and scholarship holders...
...Attack. First priority was to make sure that the U.S. was in a position to survive an initial, devastating attack against the nation's industrial centers, and that the J.C.S. recognized it as a job primarily for air power-Navy air as well as Air Force. The Soviet Union now has some 350 bombers modeled on the 6-29, which could reach almost any point in the U.S., drop their bombs, land on the nearest airfield and surrender. Neither the U.S. radar net nor the U.S.'s interceptor forces were adequate to stop them...
...meeting was adjourned wearily at 11 p.m. with 24 articles on the warrant still unvoted on. A second meeting Tuesday filed to draw a quorum: the town still has over a third of the year's business to complete. This civic apathy and the large agenda are combining to make the traditional town meeting a clumsy instrument of government for the town...