Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise and honest can use the system to instruct and lead the people. The shallow and self-interested can use it to confuse and mislead...
Females, for the first time, have penetrated the section meetings of History 1 in the fair forms of Miss Edith Pratt and Miss Lenore O'Boyle, who between them will instruct three Harvard classes. The History 1 Syllabus now covers events from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the Decline and Fall of the Dominant Male...
...Countless beamingly polite churchgoers so inform their preachers every Sunday. Last week the Rev. Robert E. Woods, veteran preacher of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, took the wind out of their sails. Said he, from the pulpit: "Sermons are not intended to be enjoyed [but] to instruct, to inspire ... to make you uneasy about yourself. Any sermon that doesn't do that has misfired...
...Enchanted Cottage (RKO-Radio) is cinema's second successful production of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's famous play about a fine young man (Robert Young) made ugly by the war, a slavey (Dorothy McGuire) who was born ugly, and a blind musician (Herbert Marshall) who helped instruct them in the vision of the heart. To each other, the young man and the slavey become as beautiful as makeup artists can manage. Helping out with the spiritual atmosphere, there is also a housekeeper named Mrs. Minett (Mildred Natwick) who is gifted with second sight (a high wind makes...
...took a course in the Field Artillery School (which was paying off last week on the Siegfried Line). He was the first non-West Pointer to instruct in infantry tactics at the Military Academy, where his example of perseverance was cited to discouraged cadets. He got an early lesson in air-power potentials when he instructed Langley Field officers in infantry tactics (and the experiences came in handy when he laid the groundwork for the first...