Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using shade trees for classroom roofs, Farmer-Missionary Higginbottom started the Allahabad Agricultural Institute to teach the secret of his miracles. He made princes shed their robes, put on working clothes, and go into the fields to get dirt under their nails just like the Untouchables. Soon, to their native states the student potentates took back a firsthand knowledge of contour farming, water conservation, crop rotation. Today the Allahabad Institute is a 600-acre demonstration farm with a student body...
...Better Understanding Sirs: After your fine review of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (TIME, April 2), it may interest your readers to know that the entire proceeds of the American premiere were given to our Society for our rehabilitation program to aid and teach servicemen interested in a career in the graphic arts...
...shouldn't the servicemen organize and publish books and hand out free information for civilians? Teach them to live the way we have been fighting for, to make them conform to the ideas and ideals we have supposedly been protecting...
...armor-heavy Third Army was performing brilliantly all the tricks he had worked hard to teach it. Some of Patton's men were fighting in Kassel, the important road-junction point of central Germany. They were less than 180 miles from Berlin. Patton had already come that many miles, in less than seven weeks-through thick fighting and across the Rhine. His 4th Armored Division was busily engaged in its specialty: spearheading a typical Patton flanking movement. One of its miles-long columns was only 152 miles from Berlin...
...seller (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943), tells the story of the 34-year-old Georgia flyer who, refusing to believe he was too old for combat, became an ace under General Chennault (Raymond Massey), was forced to land in enemy territory after helping to bomb Hong Kong, and survived to teach Army flyers what he had learned during the lean, heroic days of air warfare in China...