Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will you now place your hand in this boiling metal, and ladle out a portion of it?' he said to his distinguished pupil...
...took a business course at Georgia School of Technology. He made money teaching dancing in Asheville, N. C. and Atlanta before he left college in 1921. He set up in Manhattan in 1923, now has eight floors on East 43rd Street and grosses $500,000 a year. Typical Murray pupil is a businessman over 40 who pays $100 for 20 lessons. With 260 people on his $8,000-a-week payroll, Arthur Murray prefers Southern girls as teachers (he finds them forceful but gracious, extraverts...
...plan, still the rule for most youngsters, is considered old-fashioned by many educators. The up-to-date child rides through his public schooling on a 6-3-3-2 or 6-4-4 model. In the 6-4-4 system (notable example: Pasadena Calif.) the pupil spends his childhood in a six-year elementary school, feels his adolescent oats in a four-year junior high, grows to manhood in a four-year senior high which takes in the junior and senior years of the old high school, the freshman and sophomore years of college. He gets a general education...
...University he became a pupil of Masaryk, drank in his ideas for a Czech state. Later, as professor of sociology, he continued his master's teachings through a secret nationalist society. Soon after the outbreak of the War, his underground activities were discovered, and he fled to join Masaryk in Switzerland. There pupil and master drafted their sales-talks to the Allies...
Last year, conforming to this wish, a group of Belgian musicians, led by Ysaÿe's lifelong friend and former pupil, Queen Mother Elisabeth of Belgium, founded the Concours International Eugene Ysaÿe. To Brussels, with fiddle cases under their arms, flocked contestants from 26 nations, eager to try for the bantamweight violin championship of the world. To the surprise of all, the lion's share of honors went to five young Soviet Russians...