Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first job, then became a draftsman for Pennsylvania Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, then general manager of the road. He was whipped through every department of the Pennsylvania to get a background which would enable him to teach and train employes. In 1911 he was given the task of rehabilitating the Long Island Railroad. With this experience, he left in 1914 for England. He carried two suitcases when he sailed, one filled with clothes, the other with reports of England's Great Eastern Railway of which...
...currently in low repute after years of twitting for its fat women in Greek robes and coy postures; if it is being hard pressed by such modernist schools as that of Mary Wigman, it is at least more alive than it was before the great Isadora began to teach. Last week's Stadium audience seemed aware of this when it gave its greatest applause not to the elaborate group dances but to the simple little one which Irma Duncan had got from her foster mother...
Winner Take All (Warner). James Cagney does not know much about boxing and no one in the studio bothered to teach him. But that in no way diminishes the value of this picture. Cagney always does his best sparring against his leading ladies and in this picture he has two of them to threaten. He hits neither and only kicks the one who deserves it (Virginia Bruce). She is a lady of patrician manners and gutter instincts, attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less...
...discussed as a starting point for other comparative studies) leans heavily on social sciences, gives no place to languages or specific sciences, which Experimental College students had to study on ''the Hill." Also, there is a loss in effectiveness when, for example, an Adviser whose field is Art must teach Economics to an experimental college group. A further disadvantage: there is no articulation between high school and experimental college courses, nor with the university courses which the student takes after finishing the Greek-American study...
...monster named George Grosz arrived last week from Germany to teach at Manhattan's Art Students' League. It was his first U. S. visit, yet wild rumors and alarums had prefixed him a monster...