Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts are that four teachers were given the test. . . . One of the four made a score of 20, the average for the four was a grade of 67, which would mean that the other three made an average of 83. So you see 9,000 Colorado schoolteachers were being judged as to their knowledge of history on the basis of a low score by one teacher...
Mildred was a teacher at Wisconsin when she met Arvid Harnack, a German graduate student. They were married in 1930 and left for Germany, where Arvid got a job in the Economics Ministry. When the Nazis came to power Arvid held on to his job, but he and Mildred together joined the underground. Then in 1942 Mildred's family in the U.S. received a hastily scrawled postcard. "Don't write," it said. "Never forget me." Soon afterward Harnack was executed by strangulation at the end of a foot-long rope...
Winston Churchill received tributes by the hundreds† and presents by the score on his 73rd birthday. Among the presents: a bold seascape in oil by seven-year-old Grandson Winston II, whose art teacher is his grandfather. Winston II explained to the inquiring press why he hadn't yet done a portrait of his grandfather: "He wouldn't keep still...
...blacksmithing class, the teacher watched one Hawaiian boy vigorously whaling away at cold metal. Then he asked: "Why don't you heat it, Joe?" Replied exhausted, exasperated Joe: "Heet it? I heet it so hard, I bust...
...Azhar buys himself a high, tight academic turban, sharpens his reed quills, tucks his inkhorn into his belt, takes off his slippers, and enters Al Azhar mosque. There he joins one of the attentive circles of cross-legged students gathered at the feet of a sheikh (elder, i.e., teacher), who leans against a pillar and expounds Islamic faith and Arabic letters...