Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building up the men characters." The men characters, all of whom are undergraduates except for a lonely college professor, may not have much maturity, but they are well stocked with charm and witty sayings. To one, for instance, a girl's college is "a place where they teach the boas to constrict...
...traveling gins in sparsely-settled areas of Mexico, compresses to reduce the size of ordinary gin bales for overseas shipment, warehouses with a capacity of 2,000,000 bales, a barge line on the Ouachita, Mississippi and Warrior Rivers to carry cotton to tidewater. It runs a school to teach the fine art of cotton grading, finances cotton growing in irrigated sections, has even distributed hogs to improve the lot of the cotton grower...
Balinese ethics are dictated by the benefit or harm that would affect the community as a whole if certain acts were performed. Private behavior which does not injure other members of the community is regarded with complete indifference. Geoffrey Gorer thinks that the West has nothing to teach the East except the use of labor-saving machinery, that the East has a great mission in teaching the Wrest the rudiments of good manners...
...Education which is required in aviation must also teach the value of civilized institutions. Our responsibility in creating a great force for destruction may be some-what relieved by knowing that we have allied this thought with intelligence and education and that we have moved that power farther away from ignorance. I find some cause for hope in the belief that the power which must be bound to knowledge is less dangerous to civilization than that which is barbaric. It is the responsibility of aviation to further the combination of strength and intelligence...
...court the University's attorney rehearsed both arguments, stoutly added that the State had discharged its Constitutional obligation to Negroes by chartering Lincoln as a "University" in 1921. If Negroes wanted to study law, said they, Lincoln should teach it. NAACP attorneys demanded to know how the State of Missouri could blow hot by claiming that its black and white colleges were equal, blow cold by allowing its University to reject Lincoln credits. That Lincoln was itself a "University" they denied, recalling that the $500,000 granted it to set up graduate schools had been thrown out as unconstitutional...