Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wing and fuselage. The navigator had bailed out of the nose compartment; so had the pilot. Copilot Obenauf, squeezing along the catwalk toward the nose, was ready to jump too. He looked down and froze: there, lying unconscious, his oxygen equipment disconnected, his chute pack gone, was the navigator-instructor, Major Joseph B. Maxwell...
Courtesy and a decorous spirit-as well as immense poetic acuity-are what Ransom's followers praise him for, and he began early to collect followers. As a young instructor at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University in the early '20s. he be came a founder and chief literary exhibit of a band of Southern poets (Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, et al.) called the Fugitives. A few years older than the others, Ransom led the flight of the Fugitives-from the strictures of the machine age, they explained, to the rural virtue of Southern soil...
...Sabre jet fighter-bomber on a training mission maneuvered through a series of turns. In the rear cockpit sat Lieut. Gerald Moran. 24. His vision was blocked by a cockpit hood; his only contacts with the outside were his radio and his instruments. In the front seat sat his instructor, Captain Thomas Coryell, 29, charged with keeping an alert for other aircraft while his student practiced. At 8:28. Pilot Moran called the control tower at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas to report that he would now begin a "jet penetration," a procedural dive...
Those receiving grants for independent research are Eric G. Ball, professor of Biological Chemistry; Lyman H. Butterfield '30, lecturer on History; Edward H. Chamberlin, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy; David Gitlin, assistant professor of Pediatrics; James M. Henderson, assistant professor of Economics; and Georg H.B. Luck, instructor in Classics...
Such a background would be valuable for both the instructor and his students. Besides the ability to search for knowledge, future teachers should have the training to communicate their findings excitingly and lucidly...