Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rocky, radiant, soft-spoken Anthony Sisti, who runs his own art school in Buffalo and flies to Manhattan every week to teach drawing at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, belongs to the modern school in art and the old school in boxing. A praiser of the days when fighters like Benny Leonard relied on brains rather than bang, Tony Sisti planned to eke out six cagey rounds last week. Instead, he found his young and hopeful opponent open to certain applications of practical anatomy, dropped him once and knocked him out for good in 70 seconds...
...lesson this morning with Mrs. Elizabeth von Hesse, who tries in the brief opportunities I occasionally give her to improve my speaking voice. All I can say is that if she is successful I consider her a most extraordinary teacher, for I give her very little opportunity to teach...
...Africa and the isles of the seas for more than a century. This missionary enterprise throughout the world, despite the late lean years, still spends $50,000,000 a year. Yet there has persisted a vague belief among average uninformed Christians that the main job of missions is to teach ABC's to, wipe the noses of, and put pants on little black, brown and yellow people whose conception of Christianity is about that of a Sunday-school squidget...
Known as one of the world's most eminent authorities in the field of ancient classics, Jaeger will hold one of the University Professorships recently created by President Conant by which the holder is free to make his own teaching and research schedules and may teach in any department of the University...
...have a very close connection with Harvard," admitted Gertrude Lawrence, star of "Susan and God," in a recent interview. "A Harvard man tried to teach me how to play the saxophone...