Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need for improvement of educational methods is urgent. The policy at Harvard, and probably at most other American universities, places almost no emphasis on the pedagogical ability of its instructors and professors. Here scholarship, and not inspiration or skill as a teacher, determines the pay and rank of the faculty members. The interest which the man takes in his students, and the sympathy with which he responds to their problems and difficulties, is ignored when promotions are made. As a result the able and ambitious man turns from his students to the presses, for he sees that the royal road...
...biggest funeral Shanghai has ever given a white man. His body lay embalmed in a steel coffin of immense weight. As it passed through packed Shanghai streets, the crowd panicked. Overhead zoomed Chinese planes (prudently withheld from action two months ago against the Japanese). Chinese pilots showed their skill in daring turns and sideslips. At Hungjao Airdrome, from which Robert Short went up to certain Death last February, his steel coffin was lowered into a hole in the ground. During the funeral Mrs. Short once collapsed into the arms of her other son Edmund, but smelling salts revived...
...Germanic Museum is ending the season with an exhibit of Dutch landscape, genre, and still life painting of the seventeenth century, that illustrates the extraordinary versatility and skill of the painters of Holland in this period...
...President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram received at Shanghai from Manchuria's famed General Ma (TIME, Nov. 23). For more than 40 days, according to his telegram, General Ma has been double-crossing everyone with a skill and success unrivaled even among heathen Chinese...
...FORMATION, PRESENTING THE MOST IMPOSING ELEPHANTINE COLUMN OF ALL TIME") to the closing one ("HUGO ZACCHINI, THE HUMAN PROJECTILE, A LIVING PERSON SHOT HEADLONG THROUGH SPACE WITH TERRIFIC FORCE FROM THE MOUTH OF A MONSTER CANNON") 1932-5 biggest tent show is an exhibition of the glamour, fantasy, strength, skill, ingenuity and courage of animals high...