Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pablo (cowboy): "Si, it ees so?jus' like all the time she teach to me how the love it ees everything...
...need hardly be added that this law did not have its origin in bigotry. The majority is not trying to establish a religion or to teach it-it is trying to protect itself from the effort of an insolent minority to force irreligion upon the children under the guise of teaching Science...
...want any smart Alec tryin' to teach mah child that man descended from a tadpole or a monkey. . . . When a man gets so smart that he cain't believe the Bible, he's jest too smart to know that he's a fool...
...real name Louis Fall) onetime (1922-23) light-heavyweight champion of the world, was lumbering home along a dark street in Manhattan last week, when he spied two men fisticuffing under a street light. Thinking to teach them a lesson, he banged their heads together. A knife flickered; Peacemaker Siki fell to the ground with a great wound in his cheek. The physician who stitched him together some hours later expressed doubt that the amazed Senegalese would ever fight again...
...opinions and about which he could be induced to talk, and there were a good many. For example, when the correspondent was there a corner of Mr. Ford's laboratory had been canvased off, he had imported a dancing master, Benjamin B. Lovett, from Massachusetts, and was having him teach classes old fashioned reels, the Portland Fancy, Money Musk, the Fisher's Hornpipe, Pop Goes the Weasel, waltzes, polkas, the ripple, quadrilles, barn dances. Mr. Ford does not like modern dances, thinks the old ones will come back, is preparing a book to show why. He has also written...