Word: taught
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just to survey feeding freshmen," wrote Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles in a fax yesterday. "Now, he should cheer up, as he looks down at the central areas of the Barker Center, bustling with Faculty and students talking, working, teaching and being taught...
...department's newest track allows concentrators to earn cum laude status-though not magna or summa degrees-for getting distinguished grades in all the required courses and taking an extra seminar or small group course taught by a departmental Faculty member in lieu of writing a thesis...
...injury taught Skelton a crucial lesson: patience...
...parents' child, as were we, much more than we realized. Our parents outlasted the Depression and defeated the armies of fascism. They taught us, by word and deed, that we Americans could do anything if we put our minds to it--that the world would bend to our will, and that it was our duty to exercise that will. We were raised to believe that what we thought mattered, that what we did mattered. What were we trying to do but complete our parents' liberation of the world? What were we trying to build if not that shining city...
...initial attempt to grasp a suspect's arm has been replaced with the more flexible "C grip," a loose grab that does not tend to provoke an angry response. They learn to wait for backup so they can use "team takedowns" to apprehend a suspect more easily. Recruits are taught how to "talk someone into jail," says Sandy Jo MacArthur, the department's human-relations sergeant...