Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duration. He found that government records had all been chucked into an old sugar sack. The spawning goat population was slowly munching up the island's greenery. Public boats (needed to bring goods ashore, since Pitcairn has no harbor) looked as neglected as unused outhouses. To teach Pitcairn Islanders how to shift for themselves, Commissioner Maude decided on a time-honored British expedient: a constitution of Pitcairn...
Neophyte to Airman. But the process took more than time: it took fields, equipment and instructors in a measure far beyond the wildest dreams of a few years ago. (For months the instructor problem alone was so critical that graduates had to be plowed back into the system to teach newcomers.) It took a great reserve of the best manpower: even after the most meticulous selection, 35 to 40% of students washed out annually before Pearl Harbor (no figures have been released since then...
...Damndest thing that could happen to a father," he exploded. "That will teach me to look a man in the face when I shake his hand...
...Princeton man has softened up the Japanese language. Using a formula of poker-playing days in college,* balding Burton Crane, 41 (Princeton ex-'22), invented a card game which he claims will teach a speaking knowledge of Japanese (a vocabulary of 800 words) in ten sessions. His game smashes to smithereens collegiate par for the course: 18 months...
...Tried to teach British girls to jitterbug, k Made up tales about U.S. movie stars: "We don't like to spoil their dreams...