Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward G. Huber was appointed Assistant Professor of Public Health Administration for three years; John T. Williams, as Assistant Professor of Gynaecology; John J. Livingood, as Instructor and Tutor in Physics; Yellapragada Subba Row, as Associate in Biological Chemistry...
Handsome, 42-year-old Assen Jordanoff has never flown around the world, but in the last few years he has collected lots of money. In his early U. S. years he was barnstormer, instructor (he gave a ground lesson to the late Thomas Alva Edison), movie consultant and test pilot. By 1929 he was able to set down his flying notions in good plain English in newspapers and magazines. In 1932 he turned out a book, Flying, and How To Do It, that sold mightily for a dollar. On the strength of this, Funk & Wagnalls engaged him to write...
...Your Wings, in simple, first-person, instructor-to-student dialogue, Jordanoff told how to fly, prudently prefacing the course with lectures on the history of flying, aerodynamics and how to use a parachute. Through 27 chapters he guided the student off the ground, through rudimentary flight, and back to earth again; told him about motors, propellers, wing lift, etc. ; took off with him again for turns, climbs, glides, later for stalls and spins and aerobatics; sent him soloing; proceeding thence through discussions of "avigation," instruments, fuels, radio, accessories...
...Wilfred Bloomberg, instructor in neurology at the Medical School, has developed a new approach to the curing of alcoholism through the use of the drug benzedrine, which acts as a substitute for alcohol while the personality defect that caused the patient to become addicted to drink is corrected...
Twelve civic minded students of the College have been doing active work for the Speaker's Bureau of the Greater Boston Community Chest Fund, Norman W. Mattis, instructor in Public Speaking, announced last night...