Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commander of the band of destroyers was 25-year-old Major Frank Gleason, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Shy, redheaded Major Gleason and his men arrived in Kweilin last summer to teach demolition techniques to the Chinese. When the Japs began their autumn offensive, he and his men stopped teaching and began destroying...
Last week came news that in a decree signed by his Minister of the Pen, the Emperor has decreed a drastic restriction of missionary activity in Ethiopia. Hence forth missionaries must not attempt to convert good Copts. They may maintain their hospitals and schools, but only if they teach those "principles of Christianity common to all Christian churches...
...Armed Forces Institute has its way, the venerable art of barbershop singing will soon reach an unprecedented degree of literacy and technical perfection. To teach G.I. Joe how to sing close, the Institute last week published a manual entitled How to Sing and Read Music. It contained more new tricks of sound musical pedagogy than civilian pedagogues have thought up in a long time...
Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon, is a digest and condensation of the writings of Anna Leonowens, an English officer's widow who in 1862 was hired to teach English to the Siamese monarch's numerous wives and children. Always interesting and sometimes charming, it is surprisingly unsensational for a story of life in a harem...
Keenly aware of the distrust with which it is regarded throughout Central America, the United Fruit Co. leans over backward to keep the Zamorano school above suspicion. It has announced that it will not employ the graduates in its plantations. The school does not teach banana culture, admits no students because of political connections, markets no surplus produce for fear of being accused of exploiting the students' labor. Said one relieved staff member, long a United Fruit employe: "We feel as pure as missionaries here...