Sentence examples for a time when schoolchildren from inspiring English sources

Hollywood created the biopic in the 1930s, mostly to celebrate heroes in the arts, sciences and public life, a time when schoolchildren still learnt to recite Longfellow's lines: 'Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime/ And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time'.

New York in 1956 was a complex, before-the-economic-deluge city in a complicated time when schoolchildren did hydrogen-bomb duck-and-cover drills under their desks, where blacklisted writers worked under pseudonyms in the era of the silent generation, and where blacks, Hispanics, Asians and women were not encouraged to apply.

This is a clear break from Mao's time, when schoolchildren stomped on pictures of the ancient sage Confucius and efforts -- sometimes reaching ludicrous depths -- were made to root out all "feudal" traditions.

"The attack also happened during the time when schoolchildren in the area go to their schools, so more than 20 children in Jrouh were suffocating and a large number of them died".

At a time when New York City schoolchildren would normally be settling into the predictable rhythms of a new school year, many are suffering emotional aftershocks as they struggle to understand what happened on Sept. 11 and how it will change their young lives.

Could there be a time when everyone from schoolchildren to pensioners, and artists to accountants top up their natural abilities with some funky head-gear?

But at a time when a majority of public schoolchildren in about a third of the states come from low-income families, according to the Southern Education Foundation, those who are pushing for higher preschool enrollment say that investing in the youngest children could save public spending later on.

Derek Williamson, chief inspector, said: "It was an attack launched without warning in an absolutely indiscriminate fashion and at a time when the place was busy with schoolchildren and people going to work.

One result is that nearly one-third of the branch libraries in the Bronx do not have children's librarians, at a time when experts say the city's schoolchildren need to read more to improve their test scores.

Ben, a handicapped child, suffers through his own challenges, growing up at a time when it wasn't as common for schoolchildren to be diagnosed with one disability or another.

At a time when the first lady, Michelle Obama, has begun a nationwide campaign to improve schoolchildren's health, the lessons from Title IX show that school-based fitness efforts can have lasting effects.