Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People who believe in ghosts met last week in Paris-the International Spiritualist Congress. How to greet a ghost when you meet him, was one question that immediately arose. The French delegates said to say: "Welcome, friend." English folk present demurred, said to teach children so would be to frighten them of apparitions in advance...
...have the greatest contempt for the way they teach at Oxford. The only things of any value there are the games that are played. The modern young man has no mental discipline. He thinks he can learn all about everything from casual conversation instead of from books. That is impossible. My advice to him is to read, read, read...
Editor Randolph is conducting a campaign to teach Uncle Tom porters, slavish porters called George, to unionize...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...
...member of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps, and one of its Examiners, I hasten to set your writer on the right path. We teach that the true cause of death by drowning, asphyxiation (smoke or gas), or electric shock is paralysis of the diaphragm. A man requires oxygen, of which the air contains 20%, and he must eliminate carbon dioxide gas, the reaction of which itself will paralyze or inhibit his diaphragm...