Word: instructional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them supposedly rubbernecking in Spain right now. Then there were "refugees," leaving Bessarabia when Russia moved in and taking up strategic refuge all over the Balkans. Then there were "official photographers"-22 of them recently reported in full Nazi uniform in Bulgaria. And now "instructors." In order to instruct the Rumanians in the arts of combat, the Germans were said to be sending three whole army divisions: 50,000 teachers equipped with $82,500,000 worth of war material. Rumania would learn a lesson from them which she would not soon forget. "Instructors" were also reported going into Bulgaria...
...Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah, Anglican Bishop of Dornakal. His diocese is the fastest-growing in the world for he touches India's untouchables. Finding their lot hopeless under the Brahmans, these outcasts have professed Christianity at the rate of 10,000 a year, as fast as the clergy could instruct them. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards-one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley, Episcopalian John Talbot...
Nowhere wan the "green officers and green men" principle more wholeheartedly adopted than at Harvard, where students got into uniforms much faster than the government could supply officers to instruct them...
...date commissions in the Unnted States military services, and the number comes to 129. Since one of the distinguishing marks of an up-to-date commission is the periodic re-training of the holder of the rank, it is believed that these 129 might be qualified to instruct in military tactics just as Professor Coolidge and others instructed in the last war. Whether this "fund" of teachers is to be drawn upon depends largely on the attitude of the Corporation of the University, but at the moment at least, the prevailing attitude seems to be opposed to the idea...
...Urged passage of laws to require premarital medical tests, recommended that Methodist parents instruct their children before adolescence "on the origin of life and the nature of their personalities as it relates...