Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last autumn, plans to give 30 U. S. recitals this winter, make a South American tour next spring. Other years he has spent more time in Philadelphia, where he is the director of Mary Louise Bok's Curtis Institute of Music. There he takes a few private pupils who speak of each lesson as an inspiring experience. One lately complained: "He shows you what to do and, alas, not how to do it!" Sprightly Betty Short used to be a Hofmann pupil. Now she is Hofmann's wife, mother of his two sons, Anton, named for Rubinstein...
...Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened. The late Alfred Corning Clarke, wealthy Manhattan realtor, donated $50.000 so that the boy could go home to Poland, study in peace. Luck came on a visit to Berlin where young Hofmann played for Anton Rubinstein, became the master's only pupil...
...schoolteacher, brimming with idealism and love, inadvertently gives his favorite pupil the bright idea of murder...
...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...
...schoolteacher told an unruly pupil that as long as his conduct did not disturb the rest of the class she would not disturb him, the pupil might not feel complimented but he would certainly feel reassured. Last week U. S. stock-traders felt guilty about high security prices, wondered if the current Bull Market foreshadowed inflation, menaced the nation's future. To them Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, replied from Washington...