Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholarship he got from the magazine American Architect) gave him what he considers his real education in architecture. Back in Detroit, at 26, he joined two other architects in opening an office. Within two years one of his partners had died, the other had gone to teach architecture at Cornell University...
There was a tall, thin cynic in the early thirties there also, with his little blonde mustache twisted into a habitual sneer. A junior high school general science teacher, no doubt. The Vagabond mused sympathetically upon this probably frustrated soul and his inner struggles. He had never wanted to teach general science to squeamish thirteen-year-old girls and still-juvenile boys. Vag was sure of that; nobody could possibly want such a job. But when it fell in his path, there hadn't been much for an indifferent, unemployed, distinctly mediocre college graduate to do but accept...
...Words, Seven Verbs. The first experimental film will run for ten minutes. Using only 46 words and seven verbs (give, get, come, go, put, take, be), it will teach as much English in an hour, claims Richards, as an "English" teacher can manage in a month. An average lesson consists of six showings of the short. "If a person can't learn in ten," says Richards, "he's a hospital case...
...University announced yesterday that an extra 700 Navy officers have contracted to occupy the North end of the Yard beginning July 1. These men will take a month's "indoctrination course," which will teach them the rudiments of Nayal tradition and etiquette, but will not follow any of the University's regular courses...
Gliders are so ridiculously cheap to build (a steel frame is covered with plywood and "doped" fabric), and have such a variety of potential uses, that no one could believe that the U.S. is employing motorless flight only to make its pilots better flyers and to teach them an awareness of wind & weather. A glider full of troops is no home-defense weapon...