Word: convey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disastrous. A man whose main interest is scholarship rarely combines within himself the necessary qualities of a good teacher. We must remember that teaching is a profession of its own. To be a good teacher requires not only enough knowledge about one's subject to be able to convey it to other individuals, but a complete understanding of his students. This latter knowledge can only be acquired after much experience, and a close study of and contact with these students. It is an all-absorbing task, if done correctly, and tends in itself to exclude preoccupation with other fields...
...week Dr. Kunkel, now on the Rockefeller Institute staff, reported to a meeting of bacteriologists, pathologists and immunologists in Manhattan that plants which recover from mosaic disease are thenceforth immune just as are humans who recover from smallpox, that cuttings from such recovered plants, when grafted to other plants convey the immunity to their hosts...
...this point in Les Miserables Victor Hugo wrote a five-chapter treatise on the horrors of his next background, the Paris sewers. In his presentation of Valjean's final flight, Director Richard Boleslawski contrives to convey a comparable sense of horror...
What the uproar will seem like to those who have never come within the circle I do not know. To convey to them the quality of the devotion which his pupils feel is like trying to explain to one who never heard him the spell which Garrick cast upon his audience. For the Copey of his pupils is not to be found in works of art, in books that anyone may read, in contributions to knowledge which all can share. He is a teacher who has drawn out of a long succession of pupils whatever native gifts they...
...That's your masterpiece, Harrington," said a voice behind her. "Yes," came the satisfied answer. "But the anguish it cost me. I tell you the creation of a good work drains your soul . . . that terrible straining to convey a flash you've had of something . . . something...