Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June, in the village where the first American colored troops were billeted, Pubkeeper John Parrish had said: "My pub is open to everyone who behaves himself. The Negroes could teach some of our boys some manners." An elderly native had remarked: "They are so polite it seems as if they have been repressed...
...seemed as if the English people and American Negroes, if uninterrupted, might teach anybody something about democratic possibilities. If all the officials involved encouraged that lesson, democracy and democracy's war would be well-served...
...Army got set this week to teach American businessmen a thing or two. At month's end 100 hand-picked top business executives will report to the General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. for a tough, 30-day "orientation" course. Stated object: to teach businessmen about the Army and vice versa. Collateral object: to let the Army look over businessmen whose talents it can use, in uniform...
...little green glossary to teach parents what their children are talking about was issued last week by New York City's school superintendent. For not only in New York but all over the land school children are speaking a strange new language, fazing their elders with terms like wobble pump, advection, burble, troposphere, chandelle, nacelle. A fourth R, preflight training, is now a part of many curricula. Its purpose is to condition school children to take to the air almost as soon as they leave the classroom. Less purposefully, but just as certainly, preflight training will mark an immensurably...
...year's campaign he had mobilized another battalion of heavy tanks. But Pearl Harbor pulled Bernie Bierman back to the Marines, with whom he had served during World War I. He was assigned to the Navy's Pre-Flight Training center at the University of Iowa, to teach football to future aviators...