Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Alpenfels has spent much of 1944 barnstorming the Midwest, chiefly for Dr. Stewart Grant Cole's Bureau for Intercultural Education, which provides source material and teaching ideas to school systems anxious to teach something about U.S. cultural diversities, minimize bias, increase mutual tolerance...
...childhood skin disease caused by a spirochete), malaria and blackwater fever, filariasis (worm infestation which frequently ends as elephantiasis). The imported diseases are often worse: diphtheria, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles (which is often fatal to South Pacific natives who have not yet acquired immunity). The N.M.P.s vaccinate, fight mosquitoes, teach latrine building, operate for elephantiasis, give quinine, deliver babies. The slow increase of native populations on most Western Pacific Islands is largely due to their efforts...
...descendant of a rebellious Virginian, hanged in 1676 by England's Charles II, was preparing last week to teach U.S. history at Oxford. He is tall, blue-eyed Thomas Jefferson ("The Colonel") Wertenbaker, Princeton's Edwards Professor of American History (The Founding of American Civilization). Princeton announced last week that he would shortly leave to fill Oxford's Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair...
...made the regulations read as if the supervisors were "to guide and control thought and conduct"; actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training a student had to receive before going abroad-that was simply to teach him "how to eat soup, not to put his knife in his mouth, or to put salt in his coffee...
...monumental burdens, touchy over the country's stubborn criticism of his half-hearted domestic policies as distinguished from his full-hearted prosecution of the war. He was told that Conservative and Labor Party leaders could guarantee an overwhelming vote of confidence. On this assurance he chose to counterattack, teach them a lesson. He would pull the bit hard on restive House of Commons...