Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College taught me to meet new people easily and enjoy them," one woman said, "Lasting friendships," the opportunity to know students from all parts of the country, and the learning of "Tolerance and understanding" were all mentioned...
After all, Harvard should not need athletic scholarships to entice men to Cambridge. The University not only offers an A.B. degree of unmatched prestige value, but also has as good a range of courses as any other college, better taught than in almost any other college...
Hindemith is reworking musical theory himself to accommodate the tremendous developments in the use of musical materials during the past hundred years. Only when such a theory is developed and taught will composers have the requisite technical skill to be masters of their craft. They must, he holds, become proficient at the most elementary level of composition, the management of tones, and this can come only from understanding. "Then maybe we avoid some accidents...
...finishing school." Asked what he thought of Chicago, he said: "The faculty does not amount to much, but the president and the students are wonderful." When he prepared to testify before a committee of the Illinois legislature (after Drugstore Tycoon Charles Walgreen had charged that his niece was being taught Communism at the university), Trustee Laird Bell offered to pay Hutchins $25 for every wisecrack he didn't make...
...leaders in holding food costs down . . . We regard this threat ... as a threat to us." Groceryman Paul Simpson, who learned his trade behind an A & P counter before he opened his two Atlanta supermarkets, said: "I welcome A & P competition because ... A & P taught me to serve the public better." Wrote an independent New Orleans supermarket operator: "Destroying the A & P would mean eliminating competition...