Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government officials and our press appear to be behaving like a pair of sulky boys who have been bested in a foot race. The moon race can teach us Americans a lesson in humility, which is probably more valuable than first place in a prestige contest...
...representative of the appliance industry, I wish you had added to the stature of your report the obvious need for adequate, authorized, qualified schooling in our high schools to train service people. I think it is a crying shame that some of our schools today continue to teach our youngsters such outmoded activities as setting type by hand, for instance, when there is such a desperate need for trained people in the mechanized, automated, electronic world...
...Find Teachers? Biggest headache is finding and paying the faculty to teach bedside medicine in the last two years. Salaries are low: for full professors rarely as much as $20,000, nearly always much less than a first-rate physician could earn in private practice. Some schools settle for second-rate teachers. Others compromise by taking on professors halftime, leaving them half a work week to make a living in private practice. Since this leaves no time for research, the best schools insist on a hard core of full-time faculty members. Even so, these are outnumbered by part-time...
...meetin' sort of feller who has just been chosen sheriff, and who discovers to his horror that there is more to the job than wearing a tin star. The story develops as the oldtimer, much against his will, is drawn by sympathy into an attempt to teach the young comer how to be a proper lawman-before he becomes a dead...
...about ten of them are at Harvard, fretting about hour exams, writing and rewriting papers, and trying at the same time to keep up contact with friends and relatives in Hungary, and to teach some Hungarian history and language to their new roommates and friends...