Word: instructed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing Your Lady, the authors of Sailor, Beware! have gone about as far inland as they possibly could-to Joplin, Mo.-for a locale. When Joe Skopapoulos is instructed to put out his tongue for medical inspection, it is also necessary to instruct him to retract it when the examination is over. His entourage can converse without letting him understand what they say by spelling crucial words. When they want him to be amused, they invite him to "sit down and read the pictures." Broke and stranded, Joe's manager signs him to wrestle Sadie. Joe. who likes women...
...first books on horses is displayed, printed in 1595. By its title it claims to instruct in how to "choose, ride, train, and diet both hunting and running horses." A book on hunting and riding. "The Sportsman at Home and Abroad," has on its titlepage an original handcolored drawing by Henry Alken, famous English illustrator of horses and hunting scenes...
Temporarily joining Harvard's social scientists this year will be three full professors, two from America and one from Russia. From Russia, where he was formerly professor of Law in the Economics Faculty of the Polytechnicum, St. Petersburg, comes Nikolai S. Timasheff, leading European criminologist. At Harvard he will instruct Sociology students in the social bases of legal phenomena, in "Modern European Social Reforms," and in "Individualized Treatment of Crime and Criminals...
...where he received the news, President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of State Hull to "protest." Taking a chance that the monoplane was Spanish, but unable even to guess from which side of the Spanish civil war it came, good grey Mr. Hull announced that "both sides" would be asked to instruct their airmen in "strongest terms" not to do this sort of thing...
...private schools, many an undecided parent seeks an educational niche for his offspring. Schoolmasters browse through it to get information about their competitors. But Private Schools' readership is by no means confined to these two classes. Wiseacres know that practically anybody can find something to amuse and instruct him in this fascinating volume, whose 20th Anniversary Edition was published in Boston last week...