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mainspring

[meyn-spring] / ˈmeɪnˌsprɪŋ /












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“The message on a federal level – and a state level here in Texas – has been almost entirely around reopening businesses and the economy,” said Jason Gindele, executive director of Mainspring Schools in Austin.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2020

Hope Bell, an assistant teacher at Mainspring, knows it’s not the same for kids to interact with her over the computer.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2020

More than 12,200 Texas child care operations are now open; others, such as Mainspring, remain closed for the time being.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2020

Mainspring of the Progressive movement today, however, is not its teachers but its propagandists, a group of youngsters whose job it is to sell Progressive Education.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man of my penetration was not long in scenting out who was the formidable rival to whom Daddy Mainspring alluded.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 by Various




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