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Word: teacher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time high school drama teacher, read Holabird's letter, "I would say that the conditions for producing worthwhile group theatre projects at Harvard more nearly correspond to an archaic nineteenth century public high school than to a leading American university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Committee Will Campaign For War Memorial Activities Center | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...generally lackluster field of serious U.S. composers, Piston rates high. He rates even higher as a teacher. Originally he intended to be a painter, and earned his way through a Boston art school playing the piano, the violin or the saxophone in restaurant bands. Not until he got out of the Navy after World War I, at 26, did he decide to compose instead. The saxophone paid his way" through Harvard's music school, too. Now the head of Harvard's music department, he insists that his students know the rules before they break them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Competition for a Well-Digger | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...leading characters are Johnny Somers, history teacher; Crow Johnson, a hard-eyed, mean, man-about-Pineboro; Bill Boone, onetime football star; and Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of people who are wanted for murder. And the characters seem like suspects in Author Gibbons' police lineup, blinking in the limelight, not quite sure of what they are charged with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alabama Town | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

This latest decision is an extension of the verdict of "Missouri v. Holland," in which the Court ordered the State of Missouri to provide equal facilities but failed to mention the matter of time. Missouri, thereupon, provided a one room, one teacher law school for Negroes pending the time when it could construct more suitable accommodations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up From Freedom | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

...seeks to make the schools of Massachusetts another arena of semi-hysterical witch-hunting, in which say teacher who dares hold an idea of Americanism different from that of Mr. Barnes may be legally deprived of his livelihood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teacher's Union Brands Barnes Bill As "Un-American' and 'Subversive' | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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