Word: asker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the effectiveness of group tutorial is a quantitative problem, the success of a teaching fellow as a tutor depends directly on his quality as a teacher. The teaching fellow, without previous teaching experience, is expected to be neither a lecturer nor a question-asker, but to perform the nebulous task of stimulating his tutees' intellectual interest in the field, and to prepare the student for general examinations...
...what they have already won) and try for more. Presumably a couple may win for 20 weeks running and thus get $100 a week for 20 years-a system of payoff that gives lucky contestants a far better income tax break than winning $100,000 outright. Host and question asker will be Edgar Bergen, assisted by such wooden stooges as Charlie McCarthy, Effie Clinker and Mortimer Snerd. CBS is confident that Do You Trust Your Wife? will be right up with The $64,000 Question as an attention-getter. Newsmen who last week watched a Hollywood run-through...
...Crown Princess Märtha; and Erling Svenn Lorentzen, 30, a commoner, well-to-do shipping executive and a hero of the Norwegian underground during World War II; in a simple ceremony attended by European royalty (including Britain's Princess Margaret) and Lorentzen's wartime comrades; in Asker Church near Oslo...
Fighting men in Turkey come cheap. JAMMAT people figure they get a rifleman complete with pay, housing, food and all equipment for $500 a year. This compares to around $2,700 for the American doughfoot. The asker gets an allowance of about 12? a month, which he somewhat bitterly calls his tras parasi (shave money). The asker's boots and uniform look awful. The asker looks particularly bad on furlough. The army, very practically, gives him a sloppy, patched-up uniform for leave, so he won't tear up his fighting clothes. But there is a proud spirit...