Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet. In the past three years, they have been even noisier because of a dowdy little Brooklyn civics teacher named May Quinn. The hot-tempered debate about her simmered up out of the public schools, splashed down over the Manhattan press. The consensus: May Quinn was not fit to teach civics to anybody...
Forty red-cheeked German girls, bundled up in jackets, overcoats and boots, huddled in a chill classroom of Berlin's Louisa Henriette Schule for their regular lesson in Demokratische Weltanschauung (Democratic Outlook). The Magistrat, the Allied-approved municipal council, had ordered their professor, snowy-thatched Ernst Weber, to teach them about the Nürnberg trials. He began...
Ilse: But why do you teach this, if you do not know the answers...
Weber: Well, I did not ask to teach this course. I was told...
...prophecy was off by 19 years, but the error was understandable. Blue-eyed, pixie-faced, sharp-bearded William Allan Neilson had wandered far and frequently since he first began to teach. His father was the village schoolmaster at Doune, in Perthshire, Scotland. One day, when his father was absent, ten-year-old William took over the class in the one-room schoolhouse. Three years later his father died, and William had to teach for a living. After graduating with honors from the University of Edinburgh, he taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Harvard...