Word: taught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith may have had only 35 supporters at this meeting, but it would be the height of folly, and danger, to allow Smith to continue speaking in Boston until, aided by the approaching depression, he can build himself a following of 3500 or 35,000. Smith had to be taught that fascists are unwelcome in Boston, and equally important, the people of Boston had to learn that they are not powerless against the brazen emergence of all the gutter -fascists who dared not show their faces during...
Texas Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Plains) deplored the dull way his state's history was taught in the Texas public schools; pupils learned the lessons dutifully and soon forgot them. Professor Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, was convinced that children can not only learn to like history; they can help to write it. Seven years ago he organized a Junior State Historical Association, to persuade high-school kids to discover history for themselves and to write up what they found just as professional historians...
...Taught Here Eight Years...
...teaching here consisted of an eight-year term--from 1928 to 1935--as associate professor of Zoology in the Biology Department. He also taught for a year each at Williams and Stanford...
...opera singer must learn to act" is one of the guiding principles propounded to students in the practice sheds and barns at Tanglewood. In fact, singing technique is taught here only as an incidental factor to staging...