Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Set in Ridgefield, Conn, during the Revolutionary War, it is about a patriotic young lady with twin penchants for bundling and bungling. She bundles once for love and once for country; she bungles all the time, thinking she is Joan of Arc and every man in uniform a spy. With the story go some mild scenic effects and, in the last act, George Washington on a white charger...
...Norwegians could outjump most of the rest of the world on one leg. In the first half of the two-part Nordic combined event (jumping and cross-country), they went about proving it. Norway took the first five places. The best mark: a formful, 223-ft. flight by thick-set Simon Slaattvik, who, back home, runs a locomotive on the Norwegian state railways. His jumps gave Slaattvik a good lead in the Nordic, but he still had the rugged, 18-kilometer (11.2-mile) cross-country trek ahead of him. The man he knew he would have to beat: Finland...
...school tie. The trouble is that there are just not enough Etons, Harrows and Winchesters within the reach of the boys who could benefit from them. In 1944, Parliament put a clause in its new Education Act urging Britain's towns and counties to get busy and set up tax-supported boarding schools of their...
...tuition and boarding fees; others were unable to pay anything at all.) Dockers' sons and farmers' sons from three-R grade schools were mixed in with middle-class youngsters who had been learning Latin since they were seven. To provide for all comers, Foot and the council set a scale of boarding fees that varies from ?110 to nothing, depending on family income, a curriculum with choices ranging from the classics to courses in science and vocational training. For each boy the county pays ?50 tuition...
Most of Ottershaw's first crop of students had little idea of boarding-school discipline. From magazines and British comic books they had definite ideas of what they should be up to: they were all set for dormitory raids, pillow fights and secret midnight feasts. Foot's solution of the discipline problem: a student council made up of elected representatives from each class, supplemented later by the venerable system of student prefects. To level off social differences, he required all boys to do their share of tidying up, put a half-crown (35?) ceiling on weekly spending money...