Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with a different task from that of Robert Jordan, the CATS have much the same difficulty. To fit these men for their jobs as administrators of occupied territories, Harvard has pioneered in finding the optimum method for accelerating language teaching...
Engineered by such men as Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages, and Serge Elisseeff, professor of Far Eastern Languages, long experimentation has produced the method most suited to the Army's purpose. The requirements of the military for speed in teaching and the insistence upon the use of the spoken language called for a complete revision of the traditional methods of language instruction...
...glimpse of the classroom work of the GI Japanese student furnishes the best idea of Harvard's "optimum method." Speaking in Japanese, a native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...
Edmund Burke said of us : 'I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.' "We cannot support the thesis that be cause German leaders acted illegally, therefore they should be treated illegally. Two wrongs do not make a right. It is easy to understand why Mussolini was lynched; it is more difficult to see why Americans should gloat over...
...code name for the occupation and rule of the U.S.'s part of postwar Germany. As announced last week by the War Department, the plan had been worked out in close collaboration with the British. Their own plans, as yet unannounced in detail, probably were similar in method and approach...