Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...population of Czechoslovakia, some 2,680,000 students-1,832,000 in primary schools (grades 1 to 5), 428,000 in junior high schools (grades 6 to 9), 126,000 in secondary schools (grades 6 to 13) 243,000 in industrial, commercial and agricultural schools, 10,000 in teacher-training academies and 32,000 in the 28 schools of university rank-are being trained to want and practice democracy...
Next evening the Mazama Club assembled in their Portland headquarters to discuss Varney's death. As they talked they discovered to their horror that another of their party, Russell Gueffroy, a Vancouver teacher and electrician, had not been seen since he had picked up his skis at the cache near Crater Rock and had wandered down the mountainside. They learned that his car was still parked near Mazama Lodge, that he had not reported for work Monday morning. Next day the Mazama Club trudged up Mt. Hood again with little hope of finding Russell Gueffroy-under 19 inches...
...Only in the quiet of the family circle and among close friends, and even then with an occasional nervous glance over his shoulder (a movement so typical that it has been cynically dubbed 'the German glance,' 'der deutsche Blick'), only here does the harassed university teacher drop the mask-if he is able...
Author of the book is a young, spectacled teacher of German at New York University, Francis H. Stuerm, who investigated the Czech schools for two-and-a-half years, who himself married a Czech...
Cellist Feuermann, born in a family of musicians at Kolomea, Galicia, started to play the cello at the age of seven, played it in concerts at eleven, and at 16 taught it as a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. Ousted by Nazis from his position as teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced...