Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young "Binks" Penrose went to Whitman, sang bass, played varsity tennis, majored in chemistry and Greek. Then, on his father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...
...Communist high command, acting through the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has declared that the genetics of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms) is the only genetics that may be taught in Soviet institutions. The Morgan-Mendelian theory (that heredity is controlled by genes in the cells), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., has been forbidden and its adherents disciplined...
...Month Club (the first: his only novel, The Last Puritan). Readers who couldn't be bribed to look at a book of philosophy were beguiled by a style so urbane and a wit so civilized as to make even the cloistered life of a Harvard professor (Santayana taught there from 1889 to 1912) seem freighted with inner excitement...
...Paukerwas born (1893) in Bucharest, where her father Zvi Rabinsohn was a shohet, i.e., the man who kills animals in accordance with Jewish rules. Rumania in those days was not a pleasant place, particularly not for Jews.The peasants, working Europe's richest soil for their boyar masters, were taught to blame all their misfortune on the Jews. Persecutions were frequent...
French ballet glowed dimly under Napoleon, who wasn't much interested (although he took a troupe with him to Egypt). But when Czar Paul asked for a ballet master to teach his gawky but willing subjects, Paris taught St. Petersburg to shine. Now, in its "old age," Paris' Opera Ballet is supported by the French state. Youngsters-ules petits rats de I'Opéra Ballet"-are wards of the government, get their elementary schooling with their pirouettes. Before the company goes back to start its packed performances at home next month, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond...