Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...
...With teaching fellows studying under the G.I. Bill of Rights unable to receive more than $200 monthly in combined government compensation and University salary, the Teachers Union obtained assurance last week from Provost Buck that men will not be called upon to teach more courses and tutees than they can be paid for in the Spring term...
...Vining's main job is to teach five classes a week at the peers' and peeresses' schools-two grim and chilly buildings. At the girls' school, says Mrs. Vining, "You have to shout against the noise from the other classes and the people passing in the corridors. There is no electric light [and no heat]. . . . The floors, of rough wood, are grimy with dust from soldiers' feet over the years. The classrooms are like box stalls...
First job of the rocket men at Fort Bliss was to pass on to qualified Americans everything they knew about rockets. This took millions of words of interrogation: hundreds of U.S. officers and civilian experts passed through their camp, absorbing what the Germans could teach them, which was plenty. By Ordnance Department calculation, they saved the U.S. ten years of research, millions of dollars...
...haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...