Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college cross-country team. He was a determined student who overcame a speech impediment by reading slowly for an hour every afternoon to a patient professor. Once his classmates threw him into the swimming pool for trying to shine up too much to the faculty. After graduation he taught school and began running for political offices. He became county superintendent of education, state senator, county judge...
...Wallesley alumna, Mrs. Alper took her Ph. D. at Harvard. She taught at Wellesley and Radcliffe before joining the faculty of the extension program here...
About half the 2,947,000 Catholic schoolchildren in the country go to parochial schools. In the last 20 years there has been a large and significant increase at the high-school level. In 1930 the Catholics taught 241,869 boys & girls between ninth and twelfth grade. The figure is now nearly 490,000-more than double. Last week the principal of Stepinac High, short, amiable Father Joseph C. Krug, explained why Catholics have striven so hard for this increase. Said...
Professor Gordon has taught at Harvard since 1937, and has also held down the following posts: consultant with the National Resources Planning Board, principal economic analyst of the War Production Board, director of the Production Bureau of the W.P.B., and director of the Bureau of Reconversion Priorities of the Civilian Production Administration...
...country's shortcomings, America has a most precious heritage: freedom. Not the four freedoms, or this freedom, or that one. Freedom . . . We Americans hope that some day you may find out these things. We hope against hope that some day your leaders, who take such pride in having taught you how to read, will let you decide for yourselves what to read. Only then would you be able to read such a book as this without a qualm...