Word: schoolwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the skin and of the union of bony scutes." Tommy is a 7½-year-old boy who lives on a farm near Hastings, Minn. He wrote his treatise, which he assembled from reference books, in legible longhand and in ink. The exercise was part of his schoolwork, but such assignments are hardly the usual fare for Minnesota second-graders. Neither are some of the topics the bright, assertive boy tackles with no apparent harm-parts of speech and sentence structure, German, geography, fractions, mythology and poetry (Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg) and chess...
...charmingly seen through a child's eyes-a beautiful marriage. But daddy was hooked by the diamond fever, and no amount of hard work helped because he never found enough diamonds. Helena spent long hours at housework when she should have been doing her schoolwork, and mamma tried all sorts of ways of making money (selling pastries, vegetables, etc.), always with disastrous luck...
...inflation, so Ludwig plays the organ for church services at the asylum for a good Sunday dinner and yearns for enough billions of marks to buy a new suit. Because his mother was constantly ill, the girls at a local brothel had seen to it that he did his schoolwork. At 18, when he was about to be shipped off to the trenches, he presented himself as a customer, and the sentimental, motherly prostitutes packed him off to the front a virgin. He is welcome now, but he seldom has the price...
...family up on a bit of his property beside the twelfth green of the Brackenridge Park golf course. Here the family developed a profitable sideline by opening a refreshment stand, selling home-cured ham sandwiches, Bavarian cheeses and soft drinks to the passing golfers. Ben hurled himself at his schoolwork, was a bear at mathematics, graduated from high school at 16 in the National Honor Society. In his spare time, he used Brackenridge Park so studiously that he became a below-par golfer, once making Ripley's Believe It or Not when he drove 300 yds. plus...
Officials at Lubbock's School for Exceptional Children have noticed that the new sense of responsibility is reflected in the boys' schoolwork; after several months in the Scouting program, their interest in what they are studying invariably picks up. "It has given my boy a desire to live and to do different things," says Mrs. R. W. Pope, whose 16-year-old son spends much of his time in a respirator as a result of polio. Adds another mother: "The main thing he has learned is that he is not forgotten, that he can do things that other...