Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pupil Derk Kliphuis, 40, a chauffeur for 22 years, put on his swimming trunks and waded into an Amsterdam pool for his lessons in an aluminum mock-up car. "I was frightened when we drove into the water," he said afterward. "The teacher told me to press my head against the roof of the car and look for the bubble of air. 'Don't struggle to open a door,' my teacher said. 'If you do that, you have a fair chance of dying. Press your head against the roof and wait...
...Koizumi met as usual with his pupil the day after the betrothal was announced. As they began their lessons, the elated crown prince unconsciously spoke up: "It is really fine!" Dr. Koizumi echoed him: "It is really fine, is it not?" And they smiled at each other...
...entered Mutual's legal department. When he rose to president, Skutt found that nobody could keep straight the legal name, Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, copyrighted a nickname-Mutual of Omaha. He plugged it widely in ads, was delighted when a Buffalo, N.Y. school pupil, asked to identify Omaha as a city, state, river or mountain, told his teacher: "It's an insurance company...
Such incongruities suggested that further changes were necessary; twelve-tone music needed a language of its own--not one borrowed from a previous system. The solution was not to be found by Schoenberg's famous pupil, Berg, who frequently used tonality, and whose arch-romantic operas stand far closer to the nineteenth century than to Berg's twelve-tone colleagues. In time it became clear that the major influence on the succeeding generation of twelve-tone writers was Anton Webern, another Schoenberg pupil who has been the subject of a major renaissance in the past few years...
...court in Stillwater, answering charges brought by School Superintendent Thomas Campbell that they are violating the state's compulsory school attendance law. The embattled parents proudly reported the texts Tommy uses (one of them is a McGuffey Reader, copyrighted in 1879). submitted test results showing that their pupil has progressed some two years ahead of his contemporaries. The prosecution refused to argue about curriculum, and later, School Superintendent Thomas Campbell's only remark was: "We feel we have a real fine elementary school program...