Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body out. Let's leave him where he is." But rescuers, who thought such a decision "goes right against the grain of every potholer," got permission to drive a new 20-ft. tunnel to get Moss's body out, because "it will teach us a lot in avoidance of future accidents...
...travel, but when Teacher James Hamlett's westbound airliner began bumping through rough air over Texas, the itch turned to queasiness. At Dallas, Hamlett phoned the State Department in dismay. He had quit a job as a French and Spanish teacher at Knoxville College to take a teaching job in Cambodia under the U.S.'s International Educational Exchange program. He still wanted to teach, he told Washington, but could something be done about the air currents? He hung up reassured; there was passage available on a ship, and it did not much matter that the ship was headed...
...students of the Azrou lycée, Hamlett brought a startling kind of teaching. Assigned to teach English classes 15 hours a week, he volunteered to hold Spanish classes for another six hours, gets his points of grammar and sentence structure across during heated, free-style debates about the state of the world. An English class of 18-year-old boys last week began reading about poverty in 18th century England, then wandered off into an argument about present-day economic and social conditions in Red China and the U.S. To a U.S. partisan who overstated the material abundance...
...expanded projects vary widely, but Stanford's is fairly typical; there, liberal-arts graduates will begin a 15-month program early in the summer by concentrating on the subjects they are to teach. During the regular school year, they will serve as practice-teaching "interns" in local high schools, receive salaries from the school districts, spend three hours a week in a seminar on teaching methods. They will study subject matter again during the second summer, receive California teaching certificates in time to begin classes in the fall...
...publisher of broadsides and chapbooks. But his heart was in his clear, spare, melodic verse about nature. He was 46 when he published the thin volume entitled Poems (1917), which fellow poets promptly ranked as one of the best works of the young century. Then Hodgson went off to teach English literature in Japan, and little more was heard...