Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lorent always carries "at least" one loaded revolver when he leaves his house. He is 37, small, slight, black-haired, blue-eyed. In his sensitive mouth and finely carved features there is a hint of fanaticism and ruthlessness. The son and grandson of coal miners, Lorent taught a parish school before the war, had a brilliant record in the Front National, in which Catholics and Communists fought the Germans side by side. In his marked northern accent he quotes from Cardinal Newman and Plato, but he also uses proletarian vulgarisms such as "On s'en fout" (an untranslatable idiom...
...recalled that he taught Government here for two years and helped to found the Nieman Foundation for Journalism by serving as its first curator...
Under Dean Pound there gradually evolved a whole new concept of the law. Formerly, the law was treated as an isolated field of study. Dean Pound realized that this view left law out of touch with life, and hence he insisted that the law be taught in forms of its relationship with other fields of human endeavor. Thus the law must be thought of as a positive factor in the political and sociological structure of civilization...
...Russia, English is taught in all high schools and universities...
...children repented: "This attitude was clearly distinguishable from regret at having been on the losing side, and it was not feigned; the rush of blood from the cheek after the shameful admission, the greenish swaying sickness of repentance are inimitable. It is not an attitude which has been taught them by an exploiting class. They were born into a tongue-tied age, and neither their school teachers or the culture within their reach had given them such positive instruction. The judgment they passed on their own disloyalty and the loyalty of others was a spontaneous reaction to experience...