Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter Maurin (rhymes with bore in) studied because he wanted to teach, for he regarded teaching as his spiritual vocation. In city streets, in buses and in quiet parks he was always beginning discussions with strangers. These conversations were not casual. Each was carefully designed to "make a point," as he liked to say; they were dialogues carefully distilled from the works of such writers as Peter Kropotkin, G. K. Chesterton and Eric Gill...
...three foreign-born piano teachers were only casual acquaintances in Europe, and they had not met in the U.S. until they happened together in the basement of Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Pint-sized, Polish-born Adam Garner just happened to have a copy of Bach's Concerto for Four Claviers and Orchestra. Young, Illinois-born Edward Edson, who was roaming the basement trying to select a piano, was willing to sit in as a fourth. So they maneuvered four concert grands into position, and gave the Bach...
...student's suggestions to improve teaching methods. Not only has the Chemistry Department offered prizes for better instructing but has also set up a program of lectures for their teaching fellows and a routine of frequent inspections to supervise their work. Section men who persist in a casual attitude toward students will have their fellowships discontinued for the following year...
...earn its place in the finals, the Crimson won a morning qualifying heat, again beating Penn by about the same margin of two-thirds of a length. Harvard, not extending itself overmuch, rowed a casual 37 at the finish when it came from behind to beat Penn, Navy, BU, Syracuse, and Rutgers in that order...
...basically simple form of exercise, calling for nothing more than a plethora of muscle, especially between the ears. This viewpoint could not be more wrong. Propelling the $2000 instrument known as a shell through the water with any degree of success calls for more skill and coordination than the casual observer could possibly realize...