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Word: teach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in war the press is a seasoned veteran and radio an untried rookie, and 2) that if radio proved itself a "good child," well-mannered, etc., it would be left to itself; but if it turned out to be a bad one, the Government disposition would be to "teach it some manners." Under the Federal Communications Act the President could, in any national emergency or merely to safeguard U. S. neutrality, shut down any or all radio stations. Already the President had proclaimed U. S. neutrality, was preparing his declaration of "limited national emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jitters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

When the University of Wisconsin lured chubby, Kansas-born John Steuart Curry to lecture farm boys on painting, art rivalry among U. S. colleges began to burn with a hard, gemlike flame. Other up-&-coming schools promptly hired their own resident artists, not to teach art but to talk it, to paint while undergraduates gaped and to give an occasional steer to hopeful dedicates. To the University of Georgia went Native Son Lamar Dodd. Dartmouth called home its own Paul Sample. Muralist Thomas Benton spurned all Missouri compromises during four stormy years teaching and painting at Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Resident Apostle | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

London was most thoroughly prepared. It planned to evacuate its 650,000 school children, school by school, into "safe" areas, billet them with rural families, teach them in rural schools on double shifts. On Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun With a Gas Mask | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Mo., Father Francis Keenoy turned up unexpectedly, hoping to surprise Father Louis Keenoy, his twin brother. Ordained together, they had promised some day to teach in the same college. For twelve years, while Father Louis taught in Kansas City, Father Francis taught in Denver. Transferred at last, he found his brother with bags packed, on his way to Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Student tutors, besides gaining experience in social work, are said to improve their own marks by being forced to learn a subject well enough to be able to teach it. Some of the tutored improved on their old jobs by knowing, for example, the mathematical and physics back of radio engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT FACULTY TO CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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