Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, U.S. composers have crossed the Atlantic to study with austere Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau's American Conservatory. Among them: Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson. Another Boulanger alumnus, Marc Blitzstein, was recently commissioned by Boston's Serge Koussevitzky to write an opera. Last week Teacher Boulanger made news in her own way-quietly...
Suffering from a teacher shortage that precludes any large-scale expansion, and a dearth of facilities that requires a finely-adjusted schedule, the Chemistry Department is doing its best to handle all comers. Despite the hoterogeneous demands and varied abilities of its students, the department has achieved a standard that ranks it with the country's best and this reputation stones in part for its minor shortennilngs. But the significance of this degree does not entirely compensate for the overtime hours in the lab, and until the Department can achieve a more equitable balance between professional requirements and undergraduate limitations...
Repayment Deferred. In Fredonia, Kans., an ex-schoolmarm sent the county school superintendent a check for $75 (full repayment of the three-month salary she had once drawn) along with a conscience-smitten confession that she had cribbed on her teacher's examination to get the job, 53 years...
...room Fifth Avenue apartment has an international look about it, with paintings from Hungary, France and Germany, chairs and sofa from Lima, rugs from Egypt, ornate gold-leaf mirrors from Mexico. On weekends, he and his wife, Edith, whom he married while she was a physical-education teacher in Shreveport, La., and their two children, Catherine, 17, and Eugene Jr., 14, go to their 18-acre farm near Greenwich, Conn. There Gene Holman putters around in his garden, trapshoots from his terrace, or has whiskey &water in his trophy house under the stuffed heads of the game that...
...Comrade Stalin." "Comrade Stalin, the creator of all our victories!" "Coryphaeus of science." "The greatest learned man of our age." "Stalin, the will and intelligence of millions." "Author of the most democratic constitution." "Our beloved father, friend of the working classes, the wise leader Joseph Stalin." "The most beloved teacher of the Soviet people, Joseph Stalin." "The greatest and most beloved man-our own Stalin." "Stalin's genius lights up our road. Stalin is our force, our faith, our happiness...