Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the fencing team, was pronounced by the Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked a difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object of ridicule in some quarters...
World War II took him out of circulation for four years, most of them spent as a Marine Corps judo instructor. But after his discharge he hurried back to golf, ending up last year as head pro at the Metropolis Country Club at White Plains...
...magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their rookies, these dauntless bulldogs fall back on the finer, far-more-difficult art of "negative swearing," i.e., not swearing at all. This art is shown in its finest flower by the following little story, told by a desperate physical instructor to his squad...
Such inventiveness, Lynd ruefully concedes, requires ingenuity on the part of the super-pedagogues, but there is plenty of ingenuity there. "Thus, your daughter in her high-school sewing class, may be getting the benefit of any 'enriched' teaching her instructor may have learned from this offering at Columbia...
Richardson said that the Berlitz schools in Germany are now using TIME in their courses, and that an English instructor told him: "We find it the very best means of acquainting our students with the American idiom." That idiom, however, is often baffling. Says Richardson: Even our German employees find many phrases in TIME puzzling and come to us to have them translated. Some questions : "What does this expression 'get cracking' mean?" "What is a Toni?" "What are daisy hams?" "Why do you say 'cool' cash?" "What kind of man is a square...