Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diversified farming to supply their own needs but not to raise crops for glutted markets. To meet minimum cash needs some may be given paid jobs working on roads and in national parks, or even repairing their own tumble-down homes. The chief effort, however, is to teach them subsistence farming and find opportunities for them to work part time in small local industries...
...their straighter-backed fellows. About one in five of the residents of the Yard join his posture class, that innocuous gathering which spends six weeks in corrective exercises. Mr. Fradd is an experienced practitioner, several of the larger New England private schools have engaged his services in order to teach their pupils to hold their noses up, and his success in that field has been marked. In his six weeks of Freshman training he does as much as is possible to untwist scholarly spines and set shoulders level, but can any man correct an individual body in six weeks...
...humanists to employ every means possible to let the German Consuls throughout the country know that the American people do not sympathize with the brutal policy of their government. The third way to combat Nazism is through aid to the victims and propaganda among the Germans themselves to teach them what is really going on behind the scenes in their country. It was for this purpose that my committee...
...impulsiveness with which the administration acted may, however, teach a lesson for the future. For if it brings a more cautions course in respect to charges that require at least a hearing and establishment of guilt, then the controversy over airmail will not have been without its constructive benefits...
...Most of its first-stringers are seniors playing their third season and apparently bored with the game. Tied for first place are Penn and Yale, last year's champion. South. From Kansas, where lives the inventor of basketball, Dr. James A. Naismith, went jovial, jowled Adolph Rupp to teach the University of Kentucky boys how to play. He taught them so well that in three years they won 64 out of 72 games, and last year the Southeastern Conference. Last week, undefeated for the season, his team moved toward another championship by beating Alabama...