Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history taught from a worldwide (not a national) view; current events focused on the nearby U.N.; science and art, stressing the way both spread across borders; a course in U.S. "institutions, ideals and culture"; modern languages (including Russian, Chinese). Foreign students, who will be coached in English, will help teach their tongues...
...over, but Bert Haines' sculling genius is very much a thing of the present. In addition to making a single fly as though possessed, he can get in the tank and row any first-boat man into collapse. His aim, though, is not so much to demonstrate, or "teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail...
...prevalence of a law-abiding spirit. Through the window from my hospital bed in New York I watched the endless heavy traffic. Thousands of cars went by upon the street day and night-and only a few police guided them. It was very remarkable. . . . In China . . .we must teach the masses to understand responsibility . . . develop a law-abiding spirit...
Guide Hunt. The standard anthropological procedure for making friends with offish primitives, Holder explains, is to skirt their territory looking for an "acultural individual"-i.e., a person from outside who has learned their primitive ways, or a primitive who has deserted to civilization. He can teach you the language, and is often eager to introduce you to his reluctant friends (it makes him look...
When he came over to America from Greece at the age of sixteen, one of the first things the future entrepreneur did was to run an ad in the Boston Transcript offering to work a year without pay for any family who would teach him the English language. He got twelve answers, picked one at random, a doctor's home in a small Vermont town, and within twelve months was spouting like a native. Then he became a hotel waiter and moved successively through Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angels, and San Francisco. In 1914, after two years spent back...