Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were squaring off at the biggest Protestant question of a century doubtless did not occur at once to the little group of Baptist laymen who met with John D. Rockefeller Jr. in Manhattan one night in January 1930. They knew that in Christ's command. "Go ye therefore and teach all nations," lay the largest task of Christianity. Good businessmen, they and Mr. Rockefeller knew that gifts to missions had now fallen off alarmingly. People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money. Most people did not know...
...receive any credit for the furthering of this accomplishment. Thus the average concentrator in this field who realizes that in order to make the most out of his courses in composing and analysis he must spend time practicing the piano, discovers that the Music Department will only teach him the theory of music, and not how this theory may actually be applied to instruments...
...invention and applications of ductile tungsten." Dr. Coolidge also was in last week's news. Director of General Electric's research laboratory since 1900 and vice president in charge of research since 1928 has been Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney, who once averred that he "would rather teach than be President." He has been entirely responsible, as organizer and stimulator, of G. E.'s scientific staff and progress. Dr. Coolidge once said of him: "It is because Dr. Whitney is there that [Dr. Irving] Langmuir and I can play around. He stands between us and the demands that...
Charlottenburg Opera House after a performance in Siegfried; in Berlin. Banker Hintze, separated from his wife, said he shot "to teach her a lesson...
...Johnson was appointed to teach English and was paid with funds which came indirectly from the city treasury. While so employed, he found time to take a leading part in a communist club. When he spoke on political subjects his words were not the words of a scholar; they were the opinions of an ordinary layman. Academic sanctity no longer protected him. If he, as a layman, conducted himself in such a way as to increase influences which the authorities considered undesirable from the point of view of the general welfare of the college, of the city, and of society...