Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turn the high schools into charm schools. Teach courtesy and grace, the art of dress, dancing, the development of personality and talents, choral singing and personal relationships. There would be no resistance to this kind of curriculum. And after this, two or three years of concentrated history, English, mathematics and languages for those who want these things. And for the others- well, they would at least be as well educated as they are now, and for all of us life would be far more beautiful...
...glorious," was charged suddenly and forever with the terror of death. This terror spurred Wolfe's rebellion against those who urged him to look for security in life-"the crawling, abject, bird-in-a-hand theory." To his mother's plea that he settle down to teach in Asheville, he replied "I must make or ruin myself from this time on, by my own pattern." But for the time being he depended on his mother's money...
These courses are designed for men and women applicants for military and naval commissions; for teachers who may be assigned to teach mathematics; and for industrial workers and executives who need mathematics. The instruction will also help former army officers who, provided they have a knowledge of trigonometry, are being asked by the military authorities to re-enter the service...
...Liberators and Fortresses had to be better, are now being trained more closely. Bombardiers had to learn that a moving ship is hard to hit from high altitudes. New tactics had to be devised to fend off enemy fighters. Practice taught pilots and their generals what theory could not teach...
...ours. One of them, encountered on a window seat in Long fellow Hall, was curious to know why the WAVES' songs, such as--and she launched out on a variety of tunes--"The first class sang these all the time," she said, "Come on over and we'll teach them...