Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mistake) duly swelled up. Complications were mild. But the bright idea turned out to be not so bright. As New York Hospital's Dr. Milton I. Levine reported in last week's Journal of the American Public Health Association: "The final analysis revealed that besides one teacher, who was incapacitated with the disease for two weeks, ten parents suffered from the infection, a possibility which was completely overlooked when the plan was suggested. It is doubtful if any further epidemics will be sponsored by the school...
...Teacher Nurnberg has sent copies of his book to Winston Churchill, Major George Fielding Eliot and George V. Denny Jr., moderator of Town Meeting of the Air. Speaking in Parliament, Churchill had said: "Everyone can have their opinion about that." Major Eliot had mentioned the possibility of "some climatic event-probably a full-scaled Allied offensive." Denny, trying to clear up an ambiguity, had carefully spelled out for a member of his audience the word "its"-with an apostrophe. Then he innocently added: "Young lady, note the importance of grammar...
...Germans had gone again and there was no fear-except that Paulette was terribly afraid of being late. For this morning the new French class began at the Town Hall, with a new teacher, Sister Elizabeth. When the Germans were there, everybody had to speak German. French was verboten. Now everybody must speak French. It was funny...
...little girls repeated after the teacher: "Do not answer Ja, say Oui, ma soeur. . . . Voici la table. Voilà le mur. Void le crucifix. This is the table. That is the wall. Here is the crucifix...
...town of Stavanger, tall, blue-eyed, straw-blond young Eivind Berggrav, the son of a bishop, graduated from the University of Oslo in 1908. In 1909 he married Kathrine Seip (they have five sons) and launched himself on a dual career as editor and high-school teacher. After ten years of teaching he finally entered the service of the Church as pastor of the little parish of Hurdalen, 40 miles from Oslo. Six years later he became chaplain of Botsfengslet Prison in Oslo...