Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city slums to small tracts of land where they can live cheaply and comfortably, raise chickens and vegetables. The first locality selected was Morgantown, W. Va., the second Dayton. Dayton had already evolved a similar scheme to relieve its pressing unemploy ment problem, had set up social agencies to teach destitute families to bake bread, can fruit, repair shoes, make furniture...
...must first be educated, so that he knows the evils of liquor, and how to adapt himself to them. And most assuredly the way to teach him is not, when he is most eager to learn, to treat him like a small child, who is not yet old enough to drink...
...less it shows. History when glimpsed hastily or through a mirage presents an exciting panorama; carefully considered, looked at in detail, it is a drab plain, where facts lie side by side, and even the law of cause and effect is questioned. Containing examples of everything, history can teach only the lesson read into...
...query, "and it's clean for the reason that the pre players are fighting for their livelihood and any breach of the unwritten law results in the players being ganged. Among professionals there is a fact agreement not to resort to dirty factics. Because of this the coaches teach the players how to work just as effectively by playing clean. The men-cooperate by keeping in training and taking a genuine interest in the game. The result is that the game is speeded up and penalties are reduced...
...Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work. She became critic of the New York Evening Post only to be criticized for constantly presenting the musician's point of view. She took to teaching and her most talented pupils had trouble finding audiences. Cornelius Bliss indirectly gave her the idea for a layman's school. He wanted her to teach his daughter Elizabeth enough music so that she would be interested when she went with him to the opera. Later Mme Samaroff experimented with...