Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contorting his attention on present methods of education, Dean Benjamin compared the systems of some schools with attempts to teach squirrels to fly and snakes to jump...
...Mikoyan studied U.S. meatpacking processes in Chicago. He returned home to set up the huge Mikoyan packinghouse in Moscow and to teach the Russians how to eat cornflakes, drink canned fruit juices. He said then: "We do not need to copy Americans, but we can learn much from their advertising methods...
...making real progress with these people," he assured me. "You know it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. This is no quickie-it may take 10 or 20 years, maybe more. But we're getting there...
...Tossy finds a few minutes to teach his blonde daughter Ruth, 10, his special brand of fiddling. But as for Ruth having a fiddler's career, Tossy says "too strenuous for a woman, at least our little woman...
G.B.S. has taken a familiar Greek classic, folded in a dash of "middle class morality" and a measure of Cheapside Cockney, and turned out one of his most palatable and humorous plots. Professor Henry Higgins, a middle-aged bachelor and phonetics expert, takes it upon himself to teach cultured English to a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, and then pass her off as English nobility. For months he drills, cudgels, and bullies her, until "'Enry 'Iggins" becomes "Henry Higgins," and the Bunsen flame in front of Eliza's mouth flickers visibly with every "h." Finally comes the great test...