Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another took their turns, the schools' job grew. From young (37) Brigadier General Lawrence S. Kuter they learned that the Army Air Forces relied on them to help train 2,000,000 flyers and ground men. They were exhorted to train 5,000,000 more industrial workers, to teach the U.S. people how to stop inflation, sell war bonds, enlist the nation's 30,000,000 school kids to collect scrap. They were even asked by WPB to contribute their typewriters...
...year-old Tsahai no year was so free, so filled with hope as this one. Back with her parents in Ethiopia, she worked to teach her father's people to avoid filth and disease. She could appear among the tribal chiefs under the yellow umbrellas, talk to them of sanitation and of germs, devising Amharic words to fit her needs. She married Colonel Abiy Abbaba of her father's victorious army...
...like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally I was in command. I took an occasion to remind the boys that I, as captain, held absolute authority." When he tried to teach them navigation, he was not sorry that their sun-dulled minds could not absorb his lessons, "as this left the responsibility for our progress entirely in my hands...
Then Painter Carroll's diaphanous women began to catch on. In 1930, John Carroll was named head of the painting department of Detroit's Arts & Crafts Society, where, lavishly paid by Patrons Edsel Ford and Alvan Macauley, he began to teach a worshipful flock of younger artists...
...Since the days of Commodore Perry Japan's leaders had clearly seen that to compete successfully with the Western powers they must hire Westerners as teachers. German officers came to train the army, British and American sailors to train the navy, and a mixture of many nationals to teach foreign languages and sciences, to advise on administration and the conduct of foreign relations, "to assist in changing the nation from a confusion of medieval feudal baronies to a united modern state." Moore came to them with no special training beyond his 20 years as a newspaper correspondent in Europe...