Word: teacher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cost a lot of money, and no one in the Gershwin family-not even Ira, the oldest, who was certainly a smart boy- could make music on it. George would have to learn. For some time the neighbors suffered; then they advised him to study in Europe. His first teacher died when he was still torturing Chopin's preludes. Max Rosen, famed violinist, told him he would never be a musician. When he was 15, he tried to write a song. It began decently in F, but ran off into G, where it hid behind the black keys, twiddling...
Later, he attended the University of Toronto (Trinity College) and the McGill Medical School. Eventually he became one of the best-known and certainly best-beloved doctors in England or America. Dr. Cushing's book recounts his successes (principally as a teacher of medicine) at Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Medical School), at Baltimore (Johns Hopkins), at Oxford...
Officers. The Association had, according to custom, to choose a lady successor to President Newlon. There were two candidates (and rumors of electioneering). Each candidate made a speech. Miss Cornelia S. Adair, grade teacher of Richmond, Va., said she did not see how you could do your duty by your children if you did not take part in community affairs. Miss Mary McSkimmon, principal of Pierce High School, Brookline, Mass., said: "The great opportunity before education today is to apply the new understanding of childhood to teaching." Miss McSkimmon got elected...
...legal issues of the case-i. e., the constitutionality of the anti-Evolution law-but also public education in science through the testimony of eleven eminent scientists. One of this eleven-Dr. Henry Fairfieldl Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History -last week published a book* dedicated to Teacher Scopes, leveled at Lawyer Bryan, in which he used Bryan's own words: "The real question is, did God use evolution as his plan?" Dr. Osborn, of course, maintained that...
...Newark, N. J., a public school teacher asked so simple a question that almost everyone knew the answer. But the woman, as she gazed down the row of small, lifted hands, forgot what she had asked, for she had caught sight of one small fist whose aspect caused her, inexplicably, to shudder. It was not dirtier than the others; it was not mis-hapen, and it was unmarked except for a few minutes bulging sores. Yet if gave her an indefinable and malign impression of deformity, of horror. She sent the boy attached to the hand-one Frank George...