Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Left intact a New Jersey law which requires the daily reading of at least five verses from the Old Testament in public schools, permits the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, and allows any pupil to walk out of either if he does not want to participate. The Court (by a 6-3 decision) held the New Jersey case raised no federal or constitutional question. Dissenting Justices: Douglas, Reed and Burton...
...tendencies. He told his classes that Germany lost the war because Jews sabotaged the production of "new secret weapons." Yet he managed to wangle an appointment to the "school of democracy," run by the British Foreign Office at Wilton Park near London, for promising Germans. He was an apt pupil in the six-week course, but after he got back he sounded more than ever like an unrepentant Nazi. He was fired from his teaching job for "political indiscretions." Then he got into politics...
...pupil of famed Pianist-Composer Eugene d'Albert, Fischer made his home in Berlin until 1943, when he moved to a small house on Switzerland's Lake Lucerne. Now, when he is not touring Western Europe, he spends his time there gardening or painting. A warm, genial man, he tells visitors: "You don't have to praise the pictures you see here. They are not masterpieces. I painted them myself...
...genius unfolded. He learned in a few months almost all that Verrocchio could teach, and soared on through other arts and sciences. He soon played a lute, his countrymen said, more wondrously than any man alive; and the Florentine scientist, Paolo Toscanelli, found the country boy his most precocious pupil...
...Central Committee . . . and Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. warmly greet you, true pupil of Lenin and companion-in-arms of Stalin, outstanding leader of the Communist Party and the Soviet State, on your 50th birthday . . . We wish you, our friend and comrade, dear Georgy Maximilianovich, many years of health...