Word: taught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation has its pathetic side, aside from the implied underselling by other cities. For an old lawyer, grown fat with riches gathered beside the Charles, has said within the hearing of Mr. Sinclair: "Hang onto your money. Nobody respects anything else. . . ." "Harvard and State Street and Beacon Hill had taught him that attitude," adds Mr. Sinclair, who is an expert at qualitative analysis. And Max Keezor agreed, with a respectful pull at his forelock, "Aye, a little learning do be a dangerous thing...
West Point training was followed by fire-baptism in the Mexican War, where heroic service at Cerro Gordo, Contreras-Churubusco and Chapultepec led General Scott to designate young Lee "the greatest living soldier in America." Engineer work in Washington and Baltimore taught him to construct defenses, a knowledge which was to serve him well. For three years he superintended West Point...
...great tactician, master of defensive warfare, Galahad of the South, glided out his life as president of Washington College, where he taught duty and planted trees. At his death, it reverently changed its name to Washington...
...truly favorite son that he and his motorcade, preceded by militia and Boy Scouts, blared down the main street of Delaware, his home town. The entire populace had turned out, regardless of party. Other towns in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," had taught little Delaware how to act now that one of its own was recognizable as a candidate for the candidacy. Handsome, big-voiced Frank Willis was the man who placed President Harding in nomination...
...tutorial system, spreading in ever-widening circles of inclusion, takes in today the last but one, of the sciences taught in Harvard College. If the force of conversions to the tutorial system may be said to be cumulative, this event yields place to two others; some ten years ago when the Department of History, Government and Economics presented the system to Harvard College, and that indefinite but somehow expectable day when the tutorial system and Harvard College may be linked without qualification or exception...