Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your plane Saturday and fly to your Maryland farm on Sunday. . . . Fly to Wilkes-Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming...
...large majority of musicians have never been able to make a living out of their compositions, and have therefore had to teach their art to others. Some of them liked it, but most of them moaned about it. Gabriel Faure was in the former group, and a list of his pupils looks like a register of modern French musicians...
When he was in the U.S. last summer, British Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank remarked: "I want to teach English women to look as well as American women." Last week he was busy on a deal to give the job to Hollywood's famed House of Westmore. Under the terms, Rank would make and distribute Westmore cosmetics in Britain. In return, the Westmores would do their best to make Britain's movie queens look just like Hollywood...
...Service. In Oklahoma City, cafe owners opened a school to teach their waitresses how to smile again...
Three Cuts. Two-thirds of the B.A.U. faculty are civilians; the rest includes both colonels and privates, so that privates teach colonels and argue in class with majors. There is no reveille, no retreat, no drilling. When a sternly military professor complained, "We don't do things that way in the infantry," he was promptly sent back to the infantry. The only ironclad rule at B.A.U. is against cutting classes. On the third cut a student is court-martialed and fined $2 to $15, depending on his rank...