Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Growled Dr. Wooldridge: "I have never known anything like it before." Ben's loquaciousness, he said, was a form of conditioned reflex. He also had a suggestion: teach Ben to say, "I want...
Congressman Lowell Stockman, towering (6 ft. 6) wheat farmer from Oregon, improved his leisure in Washington by conducting (incognito) parties of rubberneckers through the Capitol. He thought it might "improve my public speaking" and even teach him a few things. After a few days he reported it had done both; he enjoyed it so much he planned to stay at the job for another week...
Some outside scientists, planning for the atomic age, smile at the old Smithsonian. But others are slightly envious. Smithsonian researchers do not have to teach. Their work, though it often proves useful, need have no practical applications. And out of their blameless labors will come no demons, no man-made plagues, no bombs or poisons for the world to exorcise...
...Germany, U.S. officers have done their level best to purge German newspapers of all Nazi staff members even if the technical quality of the paper suffered. In Japan, where most newsmen had no philosophy but follow the leader, U.S. advisers have patiently tried to teach the press to reform itself. Last week in Japan the policy of patience was about played out. Said General Douglas MacArthur's Civil Information Chief: "The period of nursing Japanese newspapers...
...Sioux disliked the steady pressure on their western hunting lands. They showed their dislike by killing boatmen, miners, surveyors, or whoever else happened to be handy. In 1876 General Phil Sheridan dispatched three converging U.S. Army columns to teach them manners. As supply ship for one of these columns he hired the Far West, Captain Grant Marsh, at a rent...