Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Years later, Elsa became librarian at the Lake Junior High School in Denver, and began ordering all the books she could on U.S. folklore heroes. She also got a teacher friend of hers all steamed up about it. The teacher, Miss Julia Eriksen, had been raised on homegrown tall tales in a Colorado mining camp...
...into this hand, so unmistakably the limp and clammy hand of an effeminate curate, that little boys were to put theirs trustingly .. . This was the pietistic poseur-the very spit of every disgusting little 'teacher's pet' . . . that we were to take as the earthly evidence of what The Everlasting God is like...
Curiosities & Criticisms. A phenomenally successful doctor and teacher of medicine, Rush was almost always at odds with his medical colleagues. He wrote several books on medicine and pamphleteered vigorously on subjects ranging from capital punishment to slavery, both of which he abhorred. Tom Paine, Rush claimed, wrote Common Sense at his suggestion and Rush furnished the title...
...start the day in the saddle; they also study the anatomy of the horse, the foreign riding styles (especially Italian, French and German), keep fit with fencing, basketball and swimming. But no matter how hard they try, the pupils never excel the teacher...
This year, however, the situation of the pupil attempting to win from his teacher does not exist. As a matter of fact, Dick Harlow, has been scouting for Brown, but has not included Harvard on his Saturday peeking assignments...