Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspected of having ever learned the elements of electronics are being made into radio men, and even American amateurs have been asked to volunteer. This situation made an impression on President Conant, in England, who asked the Physics Department if at least one introductory course could teach enough electronics to case the pain when war comes. Physics C was elected. This fall enough streamlined mechanics and electricity will be crammed into the first seven weeks to permit an immediate start on radio in the eighth week. The instructors have not yet decided where the course will be at midyears...
...told, some 5,000 tons of metallic powder will be used in metallurgy this year-up 25% over 1940, 100% over 1936. Students returning this fall to several engineering colleges-Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, others-found a new department had been added to teach them powder tricks which many an oldtime engineer wished he knew. So fast has powder metallurgy expanded in industry that shop practice has sometimes outstripped basic theory. Leading U.S. academic metal powder laboratory is directed by Gregory Jamieson Comstock at Stevens Institute of Technology...
...terrific fists knocked out nearly every amateur he faced), Roxborough took his protege to Chicago, got wily Jack Blackburn, onetime Negro lightweight, to groom him for a professional ring career. "Joe didn't like to fight at first," says Blackburn. "But he was a natural fighter, easy to teach, and he learned more about the fight business in a month than most fighters learn in six months...
...logical extreme of this tendency is PM, which could teach a few lessons to the Volkischer Beobachter on how to agitate the public, though it redeems itself by the sincerity with which it grants and strives for its purpose. In view of the trend of American journalism away from the ancient canon of "the whole truth and nothing but the truth," small wonder that many readers--those who can afford it--subscribe to more than one paper for a balanced news diet, and that America's most popular cliche, has become "Aw, it's a lot of propaganda...
...Signal Corps' one contribution to the Army-Hollywood preview was not a picture, but a sound track writhing with the noise of a modern battlefield. This training film was made for use in Army maneuvers. Its purpose is to simulate the noises made by combat weapons and teach the troops to take...