Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Church announced that "in the interests of peace'' Mayor Key would no longer teach the James L. Key Bible Class which he founded nine years...
...College, Winter Park, Fla. Its barker: President Hamilton Holt. Famed freak: a course in Evil, taught by Professor of Evil Corra May Harris (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). To the faculty of Rollins, reported Field & Stream last week, is soon to be added a Professor of Hunting & Fishing, who will teach the students "how to take the greatest possible pleasure from the wild ... to know the peace and beauty of woods and lakes where the game is abundant, to appreciate the dull loneliness of burned forests where all life has been killed...
From pamphlets issued by the Pullman Co. giving pictures of the early attempts to teach the American public how to use such an unaccustomed luxury as a clean bed on wheels, their greatest trouble was to keep people from going to bed with their shoes...
Professional tennis players in the U. S. are of two sorts: those who teach tennis and those who exhibit themselves for a living. The latter class, mostly onetime amateurs, has multiplied recently. Still numerically small, it contains all the best players, since patting soft shots at novices spoils the teachers for high-grade competition. In it are William Tatem Tilden II; his good friend Frank Hunter; Vincent Richards, onetime Tilden protégé; Howard Kinsey. Californian cut-stroker; Emmett Pare, youngest member of Tilden Tennis Tours, Inc.: and Karel Kozeluh, who was supposed to be best player...
...There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid, but, darn it, I just liked her looks in the paper this morning and I believe she could teach these young modern heathens of ours some sense...