Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...epidemic typhus. Service doctors expect the worst infection in Formosa, Malaya, Japan itself. The disease is carried by the larva of the red mite, Trombicula akamushi, which bites only once, but perhaps fatally-the death rate is 4% to 55%, depending on the virulence of the epidemic. To teach their colleagues about this new danger, Lieuts. (j.g.) Donald S. Farner and Chris P. Katsampes discussed it in the current U.S. Naval Medical Bulletin...
Last week young Cy Sulzberger landed one of the best jobs in U.S. reporting: he was made chief foreign correspondent of the New York Times. To Teach this eminence in ten brief years he had successfully overcome the handicaps of youth, competition from the ablest foreign staff possessed by any single U.S. newspaper and, perhaps, his relationship (nephew) to Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger...
Only the tank commander, who had to teach his men not how to die but how to use tanks, seemed to hedge a bit. Said he: "Training before the enemy landing is more important than sacrifice after the enemy landing...
...education of versatile Dr. Sablan has involved a series of shuttles across the Pacific. He first traveled to the U.S. at Government expense in the early '20s to study agriculture. In 1924, after getting a degree at Oklahoma A. & M., he returned to his island to teach agriculture and music. On a second trip to the U.S., he got his master's degree in agriculture. His third trip, lasting seven years, was to study medicine. He got back home in 1940 with an M.D. from the University of Louisville School of Medicine...
Service courses generally run eight weeks, sometimes 16. Classes meet two or three nights a week, for an hour or more. Each "college" offers whatever courses its faculty can teach. There are no compulsory tests, but the voluntary tests are as stiff as an accredited college's. They are marked with military rigor. Students in dear old "SNAF U" (a name invented by Guantanamo Base's students) either "pass" or "fail...