Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party's chief exhibit was Ellen Elizabeth Benson, the plump young daughter of a Texas newspaper couple. When she was 8, Ellen Elizabeth Benson's mind had been rated as equal to that of a "superior adult." Six months later her elders found her qualified, on paper, to teach in a Los Angeles high school. At 12 she scored an I. Q. of 214, highest ever recorded in the U. S. in a Binet-Simon test. That same year she went to Barnard College, wrote six Vanity Fair articles which were later published in book form as The Younger Generation...
...Yorker appeared Feb. 19, 1925. Manhattan was distinctly unimpressed. Editor Ross had made the colossal mistake of starting to print his magazine before he had anything worth while to print. He could not write; he knew few writers. Inarticulate, impatient, fiercely temperamental, he could not quickly teach others the elusive quality of wit which alone would suit him. In two months The New Yorker's initial 15,000 circulation had dwindled to 8,000, and it was losing $8,000 a week. Every Monday morning Mr. Fleischmann found on his desk a large bill for the deficits. Hopelessly discouraged...
...protests by dismissing History Professor Ralph E. Turner, longtime loud and active liberal (TIME, July 16). By last week the smoke of battle had drifted East to Harrisburg and up the nostrils of that old liberal warhorse, Governor Gifford Pinchot. Cried he: "If the Mellons want a school to teach their ideas, then let them support it. The Commonwealth cannot...
...teach Gold Coast natives, who own more than 5,000 mi. of improved highways, how to dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...
Prime object of the Army's Alaskan flight is to "determine whether a heavy load of bombs can be carried successfully to a distant military objective." The Navy's prime object: to teach Navy flyers "to operate in any waters, under any circumstances." With Secretary of Commerce Roper in Alaska making a survey of commercial air possibilities there, three U. S. Government departments were thus converging last week on a LT. S. territory which most strategists believe would figure prominently in any Pacific...