Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church-state relations. The announcement said that the government agreed to permit continuance of Catholic religious instruction in the state schools, and gave other guarantees. The church, according to the account, agreed to "oppose abuse of religious feelings for anti-state purposes, combat criminal activity of underground bandits, and . . . teach the faithful to respect . . . the state authority." The church was also said to have made many other concessions which it had formerly refused to make...
...discussing the coaching system Bingham gave special commendation to Jack Barnaby and Hal Ulen. A coach's job, he stated, is, like a professor's, to teach, and in this respect, Ulen is "one of the greatest swimming coaches in the world...
...Yale course, Physical Education 20, will be open to all undergraduates as an elective subject designed to teach the fundamentals of coaching. The exact material to be covered has not yet been decided upon...
...make their greatest profits not from ticket sales, but from apprentice fees. Stage-struck youngsters with ingratiating smiles and a paucity of acting ability will do almost anything to appear on a stage even to the extent of paying cash to a slightly shadowy producer. The producer claims to teach the smiling youth to act; usually the aspiring actor or actress will end up sweeping the stage before performances...
...speak at a huge banquet in his honor at the old Waldorf-Astoria, he was terrified. He mumbled a few ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...