Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence train whistles; more wistfulness than thermodynamics went into their estimate of 100 tons a day thus saved. Tokyo newspapers sadly reported a touching little story which underlined the clothing shortage: seven small children playing in a temple compound were approached by a middle-aged man who offered to teach them "a wonderful new game." If they would take off their clothes, he said, they would be "children of the wind." When they complied, he disappeared with the clothes under...
...year-old Miwo Murakawa, the "square American dance" was the biggest thing to hit Nagasaki since the atom bomb (which missed Miwo by just a mile). She quoted a farm woman: "Why have we had to wait for Americans to teach us such pleasures? Why have not the Japanese taught us such things...
...required 45 moves in two and a quarter hours, and was counted out. Champion Reshevsky never plays chess between tournaments; during them, however, he keeps his mind on chess night & day. His wife, who is just learning the game (out of a book; he won't teach her), says that she has to be very careful not to annoy him during this difficult period. But, she adds: "Sam is really very nice. I don't see how the wives of some of those irritable chess players stand...
Principal B. L. Hale had sought teachers from all over the state, found few interested in a job which required four years of college and five years' teaching experience-paid only $149 a month. One volunteer hired to teach English had found that he was expected to teach home economics. What worried the students was the danger that state education officials would refuse diploma credits in subjects for which teachers were unavailable. For two days the kids picketed the school, carried signs: "We Want Teachers," "Seniors Want to Graduate...
...mass of Indian brawn and "wild masculine beauty," young Holdfast Uncas Gaines just bent over, tore the 400-lb. cannon from its carriage on the deck. He'd teach old George Ill's British redcoats to mess with a Connecticut Yankee ship...