Word: taught
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Simms's great-grandfather was the first New England Negro minister, his father served three years on the Boston City council, his mother taught in the Boston Public Schools...
...walls of Johns Hopkins Economic Seminary, when my classmate Woodrow Wilson taught there about 1886-1887 were the words of the Swiss Economist Bluntschli: "History is past politics. Politics is present history." TIME fills both orders...
...ring on Pinky's finger, cried: "With this ring I thee wed - to freedom!" After her freedom had been purchased, "Pinky" went to live with a Brooklyn family, was re-named Rose Ward, dropped from the public eye. Later she went to Washington, graduated from Howard University (Negro), taught school. In 1882 she married James Hunt, Negro lawyer. Since 1891 the Hunts have lived at No. 411 Florida Ave., Washington...
...results of the second Intercollegiate Short Story Contest conducted by Harper's Magazine reiterate the lesson taught by the first: young and ambitious authors are likely to be much more successful if they write about something with which they have had some personal contact and concerning which they are at least adequately informed. This, being a literary truism, needs a practical demonstration, such as this contest and others similar, to prove its soundness. Where the rub comes is the editorial insistence on college stories...
...dominant religious forces in a western empire of more than 500,000 square miles, need service. They have a materialistic religion and need to be supplied with the spiritual religion, of the New Testament. Utah's Westminster College is serving this great Mormon Empire by preparing leaders who are taught a spiritual religion...