Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week was out, the Chinese reporters and film crews had learned a great deal about "body English" and were elbowing and kneeing for position along with the most practiced members of the American press. But most of the time, unleashed at last in what they had long been taught to think of as the land of "imperialists" and "paper tigers," these Chinese observers seemed withdrawn and lacking in the curious eye, pugnacious stance and fast footwork of their Western counterparts...
...would wish they were not needed but experience has taught us otherwise. Archie C. Epps III Dean of Students
...Forty per cent of our junior tutorials are already taught by professors," Amdur said, adding that two-thirds of the seniors concentrating in Social Studies have senior faculty members as thesis advisers...
...others at the most menial of tasks, never quite getting ahead, they are cheerful. At the end of their lives, all that they will have to look back on will be a life of toil and a lot of warmth and friendship. But in their own way, the Garcias taught me a lot that Harvard never could...
First, they taught me that life as a French peasant is just as honorable as life as a Wall Street banker. Second, with their cheerfulness and optimism, they taught me that happiness is more a product of a person's mind than of his circumstances...