Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protected Books. What taught me, perhaps, most about the people's life in Russia was a library, not a prison-though the difference was hard to tell. It was the Lenin Library in Moscow. Russian propaganda calls it "the world's greatest library," and speaks proudly of its twelve million volumes. It stands, massive and modern, at the start of Kalinin Street near the Kremlin, with a gigantic block-long bookstack...
...cars, luxury suites with a special entrance, and 2,600 employees. But the new Waldorf opened in 1931, in darkest depression, and it lost from $1 to $3 million a year. Boomer staved off bankruptcy by getting the New York Central to forgive much of the unpaid rent. He taught patrons to eat jellied madrilene in cantaloupe, and devised the now universal card-credit system that enabled the guest to get his bill in two minutes...
...Freedom Party secretary came dashing into my box. His eye was cut and his mouth was bleeding, but he shouted triumphantly: "We've taught the bastards a lesson...
Imitating v. Analyzing. . . . "We have been confused about education and training. [Training] is a process by which the pupil is taught to perform an act by imitating. [Education] should acquaint the student with ways of analyzing problems . . . he has never seen before...
...tired of complaints that school kids learned fundamentals better in the good old days. He didn't believe it. Last week Editor Forrest Long said it wasn't so: measured by a ninth-grade examination given in 1846, youngsters of 1947 had proved a little better taught than their great-grandparents in spelling, a lot better in arithmetic...