Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College investigated this same problem four years ago, creating the "Harvard Plan" for Army ROTC. This program recommended a twelve rather than six-week summer camp to teach the basic Army manual courses, thus decreasing the amount of on-campus time required of the student. The latter is the University's basic complaint about ROTC. Characteristically, the Army rejected the "Harvard Plan," but did consent to modify it to the present program, which will continue...
...17th century to complain that the Bahamas were one of the "chief places where Pyrates Resort & are Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
Today the limestone-and-coral islands from Grand Bahama to Great Inagua hold treasure beyond Teach's wildest dreams: the northeasterly breezes that blow across them are heavy with the sweet green smell of money. A single street-front foot of Nassau's shop-lined Bay Street on New Providence Island costs as much as $10,000; clubs, marinas, luxury cottages and the private pleasure domes of the Western world's wealthy nestle among the avocado trees from one end of the 750-mile, 673-island chain to the other...
...This comic doesn't try to teach anything," says Creator Abeson, now making plans to introduce Willie Woo on television. "I hadn't thought of it as a reading aid-but we hear about teachers using Willie Woo in their classes." This is a destiny unlikely to overtake any of Willie's more established competitors...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A rage to teach fires some first-rate fiction about a child-intoxicated woman...