Word: instruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most students who have taken the Civilian Pilot Training course to date have been taken into the Air Corps. In the future, in those colleges where the program still exists, there will be a new program to instruct civilian pilots only...
...Navy more complete even than Jane's famed Fighting Ships.* The public grabbed copies for a first look at many heretofore unheard-of-ships. The Navy, whose own information is strewn about in mimeographed charts, blueprints and cumbersome data sheets, ordered copies by the gross to instruct boot and admiral alike on what's in the Navy. Navy men tell Fahey that he saves them a lot of fuss, filing and paper shuffling...
According to the ancients, art had two functions: to instruct and to give pleasure. Much of today's art is instructive: it selects details of the actual world and invites contemplation of them. Another kind of modern art gives pleasure by the sheer wit, fantasy and exuberance of its forms. Darrel Austin's paintings are of this sort, and the infectious charm of his queer, metallic-sheened amphibian fairyland has recently made him one of the most popular of contemporary U.S. artists...
Neufeld, selected with 200 others from a list of 6,000 applicants, will be trained to instruct future Navy pilots at the four new Navy pre-flight training schools to be located at the University of North Carolina, the University of Georgia, the University of Iowa, and St. Mary's College in California...
...dramatic meditation. It was prefaced with an introduction by President Roosevelt (read by Archibald MacLeish). The four major networks and many independent stations-some 700 stations in all-contributed the time. It was the first of 13 shows suggested by the Office of Facts and Figures, designed to instruct and confirm the American spirit, and entitled This...