Word: stuart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson rooters can gain slight consolation from the Big Red's star-studded injury list. Captain Paul Girolamo separated his shoulder in the opening win over Niagara, and ground-gainer Frank Bradico is sidelined. Reserve backs Rocco Calvo and Stuart Mertz are also out of action. In the line, first string ends Walt Bruska and Harry Cassel will almost definitely not play, while offensive tackle Dick Ramin is benched with as injured knee...
James M. Rutland of Shefield Alabama, Russel L. Schroeder of Cleveland, John J. Stuart of Brighton, Daniel J. Sullivan of Lawrence, John J. Wickham of Wellesley Hills, and James A. Wright of Louisville, were also named...
That was the main reason 16-year-old Jesse Stuart decided to be a schoolteacher. He asked for, and got, his sister's old job. In time, he became county school superintendent, later quit to concentrate on farming and writing short stories and poetry (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow). This week, burly Jesse Stuart, now 42, published a new book (The Thread That Runs So True, Scribners; $3) to tell what life as a Kentucky mountain teacher was like...
Among the 19-year-olds was Guy Hawkins, who had been in the first grade for eight years. One evening, when Teacher Stuart was working late at the school, Guy came back. "I aim to whip you," he said. "It's the same place where I whipped your sister." The two men fought, but this time it was Guy who took the beating...
...spare time to get a college degree and finally got it at 70; poor Ann Bush who was forever getting a beating from her pupil Tom Anderson; and the hundreds of other teachers who had worked for nothing during the depression. "I thought [of] these things," writes Jesse Stuart, "and I believed deep in my heart that I was a member of the greatest profession of mankind...