Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tube Talk. In Manhattan, the German language newspaper Aufbau, conducting a department to teach refugees American manners, received a reader query: "If I feel insulted by a rude person - in the subway, for instance - what should I do? I can't very well begin to swear at him." The answer: "Certainly not. You just give him a dirty look, and you say, 'Really...
...repatriates was Canada's No. i ace, Flight Lieut. George ("Screwball") Beurling, who has 31 combat kills to his credit, a D.S.O., D.F.C. and a D.F.M. and bar. He returned briefly to Canada in 1942, then went back to England. Probably home now for good, he will teach deflection gunnery to Canada's fledglings. Said Spitfireman Beurling: "You couldn't get me in a bomber. They're too dangerous. . . . But the bombers are doing the real job. Fighter duels are just side shows...
...Leavenworth she will teach personnel and service-staff functions. Her pupils, mostly male, will range in rank from first lieutenants to full colonels...
...Will war teach U.S. college students to work harder? Looking through its rosy academic spectacles last week, Evanston's Northwestern University thought the answer might be yes. Anyway, its 53 medically discharged student veterans were averaging 5% higher marks than its 2,000 civilian students. Most of the veterans are studying commercial subjects, some liberal arts...
Next term Miss Alpenfels will teach 600 sophomores in three Chicago high schools. She is planning a textbook for the course. A University of Chicago attitude test will be given before and after the course, and a final one a year later. Results will be compared with tests given to students whose curriculum is the same except for anthropology. If the results seem successful, the course may be made general in Chicago schools...