Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Letter. Lomakin took over the telling of the tale. "Suddenly," he said, "she didn't arrive at the boat." Then he let slip the fact that two other teachers were on the loose: "At the same time they didn't come either on the boat Mikhail Ivanovitch Samarin, teacher of mathematics, and his wife, teacher of Russian languages...
...this excited verbiage led naturally to a question: What had really happened? Nobody, including Countess Tolstoy, seemed to know. The next day the Countess mused dourly that the woman might have been a Red spy. And the case was complicated by the fact that Mathematics Teacher Samarin dramatically turned himself over to the FBI. This week no less a person than Russian Ambassador Panyushkin asked that Samarin be returned forthwith...
...years ago, straight from Vassar, Anne Waterman went to Poland to become a teacher at the University of Warsaw (TIME, Aug. u, 1947). Last week she was back in the U.S., feeling "just distressed" by her experience...
More Glamor. To many an old-school Latin teacher, the idea was heresy. Vergil, they said, was much too difficult, too full of poet's irregularities. Besides, boys at least, liked to read about wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains an exciting love affair"). It was a masterpiece, "the most balanced work in all Latin literature." And it was certainly no harder than Caesar, with his long, closely knit sentences, his use of subjunctives, indirect discourse and the historical present. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South...
...three scholars working with her; volunteers in schools and colleges all over the U.S. had answered her discreet little notes asking for help, placed in classical journals. A professor at Tulane University had made her a list of 8,000 Latin words which closely resemble the English. A teacher at Pennsylvania's Ursinus College had made a frequency count of Vergil's vocabulary. The chairman of the State University of Iowa's classics department, one of her associates, had made a frequency count of syntax forms. Miss Geweke had begun to write the lessons that would best...