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Word: teaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Dempsey-you know Jack Dempsey, of course-taught me how to duck. And who should know better how to teach anybody to duck than Jack Dempsey? After that, I don't know what happened. ... I suddenly looked around and there was Bill Wright, the sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Henry" Roraback was a Massachusetts boy, born in Sheffield, who moved clown across the line to North Canaan in 1889 to teach school and study law in his brother's office. Admitted to the bar in 1892, he stepped in to reorganize the town's electric light company which had failed. He pooled it with nearby local companies, established a central power plant. Resulting Berkshire Power Co. was sold at a profit to Hartford Electric Light Co. During 1901-10 Lawyer Roraback lobbied for the New Haven Railroad at Hartford, earned $5,000 a session, learned legislative wiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Yankee Boss | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...York in 1839, John Rockefeller moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1853. His father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Titan | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...laboratory deficiency might simply be remedied. The deficiency in personnel which, up to now, has prevented the establishment of a full course in the field is a different problem. There are at present several men in the university itself who could organize and teach such a course capably. In the medical school are at least two more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFICIENCY'S DIET | 5/26/1937 | See Source »

...already overburdened with their own research work. Young instructors who have never taught before, are eminently unsuited to bear the lion's share of Freshman instruction. Because of the pressure of their own needs, they have not the time to guide the Yardlings, or the experience to teach them as they should be taught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION AT HARVARD | 5/26/1937 | See Source »

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