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...word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals, one J. H. Tate, principal of the Farragut Grammar School, near Knoxville, Tenn., threw this horrible creature a roasted peanut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tne New School House | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Principal Tate spent a good part of his time explaining to the eighth grade how and why the theory of evolution was incredible and wicked. Last week pupil Elizabeth Walker scampered up to Principal Tate saying, "What is the difference between evolution and revolution?" Principal Tate told her what revolution was; told her to look in the dictionary for the other word. Elizabeth Walker did so; she found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tne New School House | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Parliamentary Secretary to the then Premier David Lloyd George. It was while acting in this capacity immediately after the War that he was host to the Supreme War Council at his gorgeous home at Port Lympne, Kent. He is also a trustee of the National and Tate (art) Galleries, the Wallace (art) collection and of the British School at Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sassoon-a- Visiting | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...succeeded Jonson in 1638 in an identical capacity, and it was not until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin, Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Octogenarian Laureate | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Hall, Chairman, Miss Barbara Hall; A. E. Currier, Miss Elizabeth Farnham; E. A. Harper, Miss Patricia Tate; J. H. Faull, Miss Anna Faull; R. O. Wooten, Miss Helen Lucas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE BOX LIST FOR SENIOR SPREAD | 6/16/1927 | See Source »

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