Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years later, when he resigned from the Navy Department to accept his party's nomination (and go down to defeat) as running mate to presidential candidate James M. Cox, it was a mellower F.D.R. who wrote old Josephus Daniels: "You have taught me so wisely and kept my feet on the ground when I was about to skyrocket...
Henry Adams had damned the place with the faintest of praise. "Harvard College," he wrote, "was probably less hurtful than any other university ... It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile . . ." In effect, "the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...game theory" taught by these three men protects the student glovers from themselves and from one another. Apparently, Harvard's current program of pugilism is carrying on in the tradition of the championship boxing squads of before 1938, and, in addition, is establishing a "box--don't fight" tradition...
Formerly, they say, students learned about American government in definite civic or government courses taught on a part-time basis. The new plan hopes to see the day when teachers will instill this knowledge with the help of example and material...
...father, a fiery Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed." Son J. Arthur Rank has never forgotten what his father taught. When Rank first went into moviemaking in 1934, it was to make religious shorts. More recently, Britain's Cinemogul Rank has made his name world-famed with productions of another sort, such as Henry V, Brief Encounter, Hamlet. But he has never stopped making religious shorts...