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Word: instruct (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Anne P. Guyton of Bay State Road, Boston, will instruct the new course in Commercial Art being offered by the Division of University Extension of the State Department of Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS to Graduate 374 In Potter Hall At 11 Tomorrow | 10/19/1943 | See Source »

...English teachers labor all year long to instruct our students that verbs like feels, seems, looks, and smells, when describing the subject, are followed by adjectives and not adverbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...copies of Naval Communications borrowed from the First Naval district were the only equipment from which the Communications School could instruct its 125 students. The school now has all the essential publications necessary to train the complement of more than 1250 student officers now at Harvard, the largest of three Naval communications schools in the United States...

Author: By W. A. Forayth, | Title: Naval Training School Here Reaches First Anniversary | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

...quiet, strict, forceful soldier, and he has advanced in World War II from colonel to lieutenant general, from brigade commander to commander of a whole army. His definition of a good general is not flashy: "He must have the ability to know and instruct his men and must let them see him and know him as much as possible. . . . In modern war with its terrifying destructiveness and terrible strain on the morale and guts of the nation and the individual, the value of personal leadership in the general is greater than ever before." He also says: "I haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Knocking at the Gate | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Practical-minded Professor Kelly began on the ground. He used an electrical inter phone and radio transmitter to listen to scores of teacher-pupil conversations in the air. He analyzed the results and found no instruction "which might be said to be both complete and correct." Four instructors used 500 technical terms, of which only 70 were common to all four. One used 265 terms which were never used by the other three. Among them, they used 14 different expressions to instruct students to increase and 20 to reduce power, 33 for turns, 18 for describing control motions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Better Patter | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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