Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young men of the new Army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that has ruled his life is a suicidal anachronism in a world threatened by global gangsters...
Jacques Barzun, 37-year-old son of a French scholar, was only nine when he taught his first class. That was in France during World War I, under the so-called Lancaster system, by which older pupils teach the younger. He followed his father to the U.S., found himself advanced enough in French, mathematics and philosophy to start a small tutoring business, worked his way through Columbia by ghostwriting on the side. Graduating in 1927 at the head of his class, he was promptly hired to teach at his alma mater and has been at it ever since...
...Fish and Wildlife Service has worked out a breathtaking scheme to make all this water power possible and salmon, too. This "most tremendous biological experiment in American history," described in the February Harper's by Richard L. Neuberger, is nothing less than a plan to teach the Chinook to forget the Columbia headwaters, spawn instead in the streams below Bonneville...
This meant that faculty members who teach there would forthwith be suspended from the union, could get no paying job anywhere in Petrillo's empire-which is the entire musical U.S. - until he lifted his ban. Since the camp is open only two months of the year, most of its teachers depend on commercial engagements for their main income...
Louise Homer, Pittsburgh-born Metropolitan Opera contralto of 30 years ago, now the mother of six and grandmother of 15, was honored on her 50th year of marriage to Composer Sidney Homer at an "Evening of Music" given by Florida's Rollins College, where Mme. Homer will teach recipients of a new scholarship fund dedicated to her as a golden-wedding gift...