Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a quizzical child pops a question which Teacher cannot answer, Teacher may frankly admit ignorance and, helpfully, find an answer. Or, if Teacher is lazy, or cunning, or suspicious of the pupil's motive, or enthusiastic about youthful initiative, he may say: "You find out and tell...
...name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand, Mrs. Knapp said her step-daughter had earned the money and knew all about how it was spent. The stepdaughter, a penurious school-teacher about the same...
...straining the bonds of obligation. He has since accepted Oxford's invitation to be Caylorian lecturer. His name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards: fighting the "diploma mills." working for better education of physicians, bewailing the money spent on armament while universities were in need...
...went on to Washington, to Congress, to the Senate, to a great portion of respect and honor. Clarence Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...
...recorded that Dr. Harvey's blade penetrated anything more eventful than frogs, birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things it penetrated so shrewdly that the doctor had an idea. It was not, solely, his idea, but rather an astounding improvement on the theories of his teacher, Dr. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente. This doctor lectured at the school of physic at Padua, Italy, and the inquisitively inclined can still visit the great carved room where Dr. Harvey first heard from Dr. Fabricius of the valves he had discovered in the veins. But Dr. Fabricius was foggy on one point...