Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest. Jordan's ministers estimated that it would cost $400,000 and 40,000 man-days of labor to push the mountain aside, and Jordan's budget could never stand it. Then up stepped John Monroe, who had come to Jordan on a Point Four project to teach the Bedouins how to use bulldozers and other dirt-moving machinery to clear old Roman cisterns. With one power shovel, said John, he could cut a new road in two weeks...
...scrape together $1,700 for a down payment on an empty house. Unable to pay all the bills, the parents appealed for help. They got $181 from a rummage sale, $800 from a Spokane summer theater, a $500 loan from a doctor. It cost about $300 per semester to teach each retarded child, and the bills kept piling up. For three months Patricia Aid got no pay; once she ran out of food. But the school kept going...
...child could talk, they decided, he could learn. They collected 15,000 pictures from magazines, made the youngest children form words about them. "Maybe after 20 times," says Pat Aid, "a child will suddenly achieve one small sentence." For older children they used card games, dice and bingo to teach numbers, taught sewing, weaving and elementary reading. Teacher Aid acted out such stories as Little Red Riding Hood with exaggerated expressions...
When the Neighbors have heard this equation, repeated often enough, they ought to understand its meaning. By taking it apart, they can learn the first few words of the interplanetary language. More complicated equations will teach them more words. Some will be "operators" (plus, minus, times), which are very like verbs...
Sheen also taught at London's seminary, St. Edmund's College, where he remembers another promising young priest, Ronald Knox (TIME, Feb. 11). By that time Father Sheen was 30, and already had something of a name. Oxford wanted him to teach philosophy; so did Columbia. Then came the damping orders: home to St. Patrick's, Peoria...