Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves to the world, had modeled their fighting forces on the French. But France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War eventually turned the Japanese genius for emulation toward Germany. In 1885 a student of Marshal von Moltke, Major Meckel, went to Japan with a military mission to teach the sword swingers the smell of powder...
...models will have to be precise to the last detail. Every test that is used to train spotters, gunners, etc. requires exactly scaled models. In training gunners, for example, it is necessary to teach them to recognize whether a ship is going at maximum or at cruising speed, and the only method they have of estimating range is the size of the plane in their ring sights. Since the models are built on the precise scale of 1 to 72 (one inch represents six feet of the actual plane), the model looks to the gunner at 35 feet exactly...
According to Sergeant Cooper, the R.O.T.C. men are "doing a fine job." The drill they teach is necessary for police in affording a convenient means for moving about rapidly under difficult conditions. At the same time it affords an excellent opportunity for the student officers to get practice in drilling troops...
...their unselfish action, the Faculty is saving the University an estimated $60,000. This money will be applied to the technical equipment needed in specialiezd courses. It will also steady greatly the tottering University budget. The men who are going to teach this summer will have to meet still further increases in individual teaching burdens. Survey courses like Gov I and History I, in fact, are facing the immediate future not knowing where their next section man is coming from nor when he will go away. But the Faculty realizes that the University can render an immeasurable service in this...
...inspecting baggage and decided to devote the rest of his life to becoming a painter. That was in 1885. He had never been near an art school, and his diminutive pension would not stretch far enough to pay for instruction. So he set out, with enormous patience, to teach himself...