Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise a garden on the plot always provided free of charge unless the landlord, in the tenant's own interest, compels it. The Southern climate permits the growing of greenstuffs nine or ten months in the year-and the county agricultural agents and demonstrators are hired expressly to teach those willing to learn to preserve the fruits (which grow wild), vegetables and meats. Poultry can forage for itself and there is a plethora of fish and small game. And don't you believe there isn't ample time to garden, hunt and fish! I have myself lived...
Throughout the land last week, colleges named the faculties who would sit in summer session to teach earnest graduate students, roll up needed credits for delinquent undergraduates. As always, most were winter facultymen eager to pad out lean budgets by a warm month's work. A few, however, were notable pinch hitters called in from the world outside...
Chicago's Northwestern University announced a course on "Scenic Design" by able, sleek-haired Harvardman Lee Simonson. Cinemactor Irving Pichel was invited to University of California at Los Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
...last week made Crooner Vallée an honorary Master of Arts at a special presentation. Beamed Suffolk's Dean Gleason Archer: "Rudy will finish his course sometime and go into politics." Next year, elaborated Dean Archer, Crooner Vallée would not only continue his studies but teach radio showmanship, head a new department of radio broadcasting...
...educate myself all over again. My brave little wife essayed to teach me, and she would press my finger down on the typewriter keys, and spell the word 'cat.' I could not mentally visualize what a cat was, though the name was familiar. I began to lose the confusing diplopia. ... As I saw other signs of improvement in my co-ordinate movements, I began to have hope. In about 16 months after the onset, mental confusion had almost disappeared as had dizziness; coordination of the arm and hand are about normal, although my writing is yet a little...