Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have learned our history lesson from two world wars in less than half a century. That experience has taught us that the control of Europe by a single aggressive, unfriendly power would constitute an intolerable threat to the national security of the United States . . . We've also learned that if the free nations do not stand together, they will fall one by one . . . We and the free nations of Europe are determined that history shall not repeat itself in that melancholy particular...
When neighbors visited Mrs. Sullivan (she was popular in the neighborhood, and generous with what little she had), Gerald was locked in his room, empty but for a dirty Army cot; he had been taught not to utter a sound. Last week Anna Sullivan forgot to lock the door; he escaped while she was telephoning...
Sounds Corny. Neither of Peter's Italian-born parents was a musician, but for their home in Erie, Pa. they bought a phonograph and taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including...
...first glimpse of Johnson's Age as a Yale undergraduate, class of '99. Before that, he had lived the peripatetic life of a minister's son (Maine to Colorado), and his great ambition was to be a conductor on the Boston & Maine railway. After Yale, he taught one year at Bryn Mawr and fell in love with a student-"a very beautiful girl." She married someone else, and Tinker settled into bachelordom...
...study it well, deeply, and in all details so as to combat it, not with arms and force which are means of ephemeral victory, but by showing the masses-to whom we promise happiness in heaven while Marx promises happiness in mortal life-that long before Marx, St. Paul taught social justice, and that we can and must now put our theories into practice...