Word: taught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheldon was born in 1871. After receiving his education he took up receiving. He became head master of the Volkmann School of Boston. In 1917 this school and Noble and Greenough combined, keeping the latter's name. He has taught at Noble and Greenough's since then. He taught mathematics, general science, and chemistry...
Henry the Fifth. Walter Hampden, in his delvings into the classic drama, happened upon this occasionally beautiful, often bombastic, box-office piece by William Shakespeare and produced it with all the whisperings, stampings, posturings and spur-clankings that generations of Shakespearian ragpickers in the acting profession have taught people to associate with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially...
...only can animals be taught to associate widely different stimuli, but they can be taught to discriminate. Example...
...dogs could be taught to discriminate between a metronome beating 68 beats per minute to one having a rate of 200. Food appeared with the 200 rate, nothing happened at 68. After the dog had been conditioned the metronome was placed near him and started at 200. Immediately saliva dripped into the little tube connected with his salivary gland. The metronome slowed to 68. The dog was no longer interested. Two hundred again and the flow of saliva recommenced...
...garden variety of person," anxious about the welfare of his family, and unable to master income tax returns. Born 42 years ago in Greensboro, N. C., (O. Henry's birthplace) he did an educational zigzag from kindergarten in Berlin to college in Denver. From childhood he was taught to paint, but during a winter (1908-09) in Paris at the Academic Julien, he began to write stories, ignoring many an art class to wrestle with plots. He has written well over a hundred short stories many of which have been published in Harper's and the Pictorial Review...