Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Dancer Astaire, now 47, teamed up with an old friend, Charles Casanave, to open a plush new dancing studio (deep red carpets, blue-green walls, yellow and red covered furniture). There, at $70 for a ten-hour course, Astaire hopes to teach all comers to dance something like Astaire...
Nevertheless, the new company, which has already sunk $250,000 to $300,000 in its studio and plans to open more studios in other cities, is dancing right along. It has already signed up 1,500 pupils, has made a deal with Western Electric to teach its employees, hopes to gross up to $1,000,000 in New York alone its first year...
Under his new appointment, effective July 1, Kelleher will teach Modern Irish History and will join with Harry T. Levin, associate professor of English, in a seminar on the works of James Joyce...
...Teach less from textbooks, more from "personal experience." 26. The winner of the Wendell Willkie One World Award began a powerful series of broadcasts...
...then, should a world-minded university teach history? Britain's famed Historian Arnold Toynbee answered: "To explain the history of your country or my country, the smallest unit that one can take into account is Western Christendom. . . . But it, too, turns out to be inadequate. . . . Western Christendom is merely one of five civilizations that survive in the world today [the others: Orthodox Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Far Eastern]. . . . Within the last four hundred years all five have been brought into contact with each othe. . .as a result of successive expansions. . . . [We historians] must make the necessary effort of imagination...