Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terre Haute, it was reported that Warren T. McCray, onetime Governor of Indiana, who was sentenced to Atlanta penitentiary for using mails to defraud (TIME, May 12), is now functioning as a teacher in the prison Sunday School...
...real deaf and dumb people for the purpose of getting deaf and dumb people* to vote for Calvin Coolidge on Nov. 4. was an idea brought forth last week by Republican campaign managers, genesis of the idea was the fact that, before her marriage, Grace Goodhue was a teacher of deaf and dumb pupils in a deaf and dumb school...
...battle fleet uses it as a base. Scotsmen, particularly Edinburghers who dwell near its troubled expanse, boast of its majesty and dangers. But few think of swimming across it; and none of those who have tried have ever succeeded-until last week. Then W. E. Barnie, an Edinburgh science teacher, girded up his loins, plunged in at Burntisland, on the North side, struggled for 4 hours and 10 minutes with swirling tide rips and deadly cold patches, stumbled ashore at Granton, on the South side. A direct line from Burtisland to Granton is only six miles; Barnie covered ten, owing...
...hair, blue eyes, quiet, intense ways, she gives an immediate impression of great friendliness. She believes thoroughly in people and in life. She wants happiness for people and she is willing to make real sacrifices to create it for them. Her great ambition now is to be a fine teacher, and, if need be, she intends to give up writing in order to become one, and has accepted a position as a teacher for next year. I sat in some of her classes and they were unusual for their discussions. She seems peculiarly fitted to draw out the opinions...
...Here is a liberal, almost a radical mind, finely tempered by New England sanity and balance. It is a combination, rare in literature, perhaps rarer still in teaching. Her passion for humanity, tinged with mysticism, makes her verse memorable, and I imagine that as her work as a teacher develops, she will add not a few disciples to her already large list of friends...