Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little, red-haired Emily retired in 1934. On Denver's standard $50-a-month teacher's pension-all that Emily would accept -she settled down in a pine-slab mountain cabin at Pinecliffe, 35 miles northwest of town, with her invalid sister, Florence...
...People This Old." Their cabin had been built for them by a onetime teacher at Opportunity School named Fred Wright Lundy. He had built himself a shack in Pinecliffe and the shack he put up for Emily was only about a mile away. He ran errands for the sisters, fetched their firewood, helped with the chores, ate most of his meals at Emily...
...that when Bayside (and Mecca, too) are dust, that will be the thing Arabian shepherds will remember as they watch their lean flocks; it is the word a prince brought back from a teacher beyond...
...better notice than most 17-year-olds get. More important, Isaac's angels were still with him. "I know today that I would not be a violinist if I had not had sponsors. I would have gone back like the others to be a good or bad teacher, or to play in an orchestra...
...Founding of American Civilisation, etc.) gave U.S. history students one of their liveliest and most authoritative pictures of the Cavalier tradition, the manners & morals, art & architecture of Colonial America. Wertenbaker was twice appointed to Oxford's honored Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Chair of American History. His advice to students: "Teacher says Shakespeare was a great dramatist; question it. Teacher says Jamestown was the birthplace of the nation; question...