Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catholic art often depicts Christ, Mary and the saints with Mongoloid features. Though priests do not teach that Christ was Chinese, the Sinofication of icons has the Church's official blessing. (Not approved: a painting of the Madonna and Child which alarmed many Chinese because Mary looked too much like the late Manchu Dowager Empress...
...mother wrote that her eight-year-old son was copying his father in criticizing her new hats. "Why doesn't the father stop it?" asked Marilyn Kandler, 7. "Then the son will stop, too." Added Maryann: "Why don't they teach him manners...
...speed its way, its students learn without paying, then teach new students without pay. The man who runs Chicago's experiment in adult education is slim John Barden, 32, assistant dean of Chicago's extension school, who is just out of the Army. On Monday he expounds the Great Books in Chicago; Tuesday he dittoes in Detroit, Wednesday in Cleveland, Thursday in Indianapolis. Housewives, steelworkers, stenographers, teachers, doctors and businessmen study with him one night a fortnight...
...Sperry Co.'s engineers are keeping their eyes on the bugs, in hope that they will teach them the secret of bugless gyroscopes...
...Eighth Army. He will use about 1,000 Japanese workers-including agricultural students-when the project this fall begins to yield its tomatoes (most successful hydroponic crop), lettuce, radishes, onions, cucumbers, peppers. Colonel Elliott thinks that the farms will not only help keep the occupation troops healthy, but may teach the Japs a valuable lesson. Only 14% of their crowded, rocky island is arable land...