Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...said the report, educational inspectors discovered a cunningly concealed trap door in the floor. They called police who found a school in session in the cellar, complete with Japanese teachers, Japanese books, Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor. They also discovered a set of chemistry books explaining how to make bombs, another set on airplane-making. By last month, the Department Announced, police had ferreted out and closed 78 underground Japanese schools...
...week the Progressive Education Association distributed to the nation's schools an ambitious program to save democracy. Its author was P. E. A.'s brash young Executive Secretary Frederick Lovatt Redefer (TIME, Oct. 31, 1938). He proposed as the schools' No. 1 job a crusade to make the nation's children appreciate their land by seeing it firsthand. His plan: let pupils get part of their education in work camps (like CCC) instead of classrooms, let them visit and labor in fields and factories. Said Mr. Redefer...
...humanitarian, regards his medals as a purely personal protest against war, which he resents because it may keep him from his work. "War just isn't right anyhow," says he. It took him three years, working at night cutting the plaster matrices with power-driven tools, to make the 15 medals. From his cabin in the Adirondack Mountains he commutes periodically to Manhattan in a truck which he and his wife use for pleasure as well as for business trips...
...Tulane, Coach Shaughnessy used to make slow-charging linemen jump by firing a peashooter at the seat of their pants. At Stanford, he has needed no peashooter. The Indians, delighted with waltz-time football, have carried out his strategies with metronomic precision, have turned out to be the Cinderella team of the year...
...Chicago went to see Dr. Clifford Gregg, director of the Field Museum of Natural History, and asked if he, Mr. Dallwig, were getting to be a nuisance. Not at all, said Dr. Gregg. In fact, he would like nothing better than that Mr. Dallwig enlarge and organize his work, make it a regular Sunday feature. That was in 1936.Since then, spruce, grey Mr. Dallwig has become known to thousands of knowledge seeking Chicagoans as the museum's sprightly "Layman Lecturer." Last week, in top form, Mr. Dallwig swung into his fourth smash-hit season...