Word: schoolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME bows to the American Institute for Foreign Trade, which breeds a most articulate American indeed; some 10% of the institute's graduates have called TIME'S attention to the omission of their school...
...reed hut, boy shepherd, child laborer in the coal mines, whipped unforgettably with a knotted nagaika while caught fishing on a princely estate. He was semiliterate until his mid-208, when he was sent, along with other Red army civil war veterans, to Lenin's Rabfak (workers' school). He learned his political skill in the apparatus-secretaryships in the Donets Basin, Moscow, the Ukraine; straw boss on digging the Moscow subways-and he translated it, in his first big assignment, into his ruthless purges of Ukrainian nationalists before and after World...
Classes had been going for a week at the Edgar Allen Poe elementary school in well-to-do south Houston. But the principal, Mrs. R. E. Doty, took it as a matter of course when a slight, pleasant man in sports shirt and slacks walked into the school lobby at 10 o'clock one morning last week and announced that he wanted to register his sandy-haired, seven-year-old, Dusty, in second grade. She was only mildly surprised when Paul Harold Orgeron, 47, said sheepishly that he had just come to town and did not know his address...
...questioning almost every item that went through his office ("If it's to cost a nickel, then the nickel must go through here"), Iowa-born Wilfred McNeil, who never finished high school, got the services to squeeze out hundreds of millions of dollars a year in savings. Example: after his "road agents" (field investigators) found that airplane maintenance was improving, he told the Air Force to quit stocking 2.5 airplanes in spare parts for every operational plane, pared the figure...
...many years did you attend Sunday School...