Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germans machine-gunned Danes in Copenhagen's Raadhusplads to teach them hot to congregate. In Svendborg Germans fired on Danish troops. The Danes returned the fire and there were deaths...
...Moines citizens who were curious about Lawsonomy could find some books and newspapers on the subject in the city library. Lawsonomy is to produce "the master human intellects of all time." It introduced "zigzag and swirl movement" and the law of penetrability. Samples of what the new university will teach and give degrees for: "From waste matter . . . elements of air and water . . . [and] from the Sun, Menorgs create living things. . . . The Menorgs found it more difficult to balance a two-legged animal than ... a six-legged one.... EQUAEVERPOISE of man is effected principally in three ways: 1) Nourishment, 2) Action...
Wood has written most of these 300-odd orisons. Financial prayers sell best ("Teach me, above all, dear Lord, to live within my means"). Prayers for good health and plenty of friends run next in popularity...
Undergraduate Hero. Billy Phelps (Yale '87) entered college to study law, "got crazy about literature," never recovered his sanity. After a year's teaching at Harvard, he went back to Yale to teach for 41 years, found this "an equitable distribution" of his time. In 1895, to a college still devoted to Greek and Latin, he brought the first U.S. contemporary novel course, later added modern drama...
This breezy, tweedy, pun-loving admirer of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Hardy, James, Howells and Meredith was a great teach er, because his enthusiasm was infectious...