Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extravaganza is Mr. Wolper's first venture in the producing field and it should teach him not to listen to the Broadway theorists who claim that all you need for a hit these days is a couple of name stars, lavish, sets and costumes, and unusual lighting effects...
Charlie Hockett had done a little teaching (freshman composition, English for foreigners) before the Army took him early in 1942. Corporal Hockett was raking leaves in a Virginia camp almost a year later when the Army decided to teach Chinese to 224 officers en route to China. Hackett, who knew no Chinese but had a Yale Ph.D. in the science of languages, got the job. He was still a corporal when he got back three months later. But he had done so well that he soon got his gold bars. Here...
...replaced by a fanatical determination to speak and write the truth as he saw it, regardless of consequences. When Oscar Wilde met young Gide, the Irishman exclaimed: "I don't like your lips. They are straight like the lips of those who have never lied. I will teach you the art of lying. . . ." Wilde failed: but he encouraged young Gide's homosexuality...
Anonymous good-willers in Manitoba and Minnesota put up $1,000 as a prize for an "impartial" U.S.-Canadian history textbook. Object: to teach elementary and high-school students on both sides of the border the same versions of the same events, thus promote Canadian-U.S. understanding...
...Hawaiian-born Lieut. Kong calls himself (he is the only one; there are a few Chinese-American bombermen). He got into flying by way of the Corps of Engineers, for which he worked as a chem ist after he finished the University of Hawaii. Between missions he tries to teach other pilots Hawaiian without nota ble success. They cannot even learn to say "Hemakana Hewahewa Okalani Yim," which is his niece Shirley's Hawaiian name...