Word: teaches
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...wealth of experience. After emigrating to the U.S. at 15, he taught himself English by laboriously translating an 800-page Danish novel with the aid of dictionaries and a thesaurus. Later, while studying civil engineering at New York University, he began sailing for recreation, and set out to teach himself seaman ship. During World War II, he was tapped to teach navigation for the Army's Transportation Corps in the U.S. and Australia. After the war, Simonsen sailed as a captain for the Military Sea Transportation Service, but he beached himself in 1950 because he "found going...
About 1500 protestors--and a sprinkling of war supporters--picked the Federal Building from 9 a.m. until noon. The protestors then followed the defendants to the Arlington Street Church where a teach-in and a "Service of Rededication" were held...
...teach her things she'd never learn in school...
...Bayreuth's innovation-minded director, the late Wieland Wagner, grandson of the composer. Instantly, she says, "I knew he was going to become the most important person in my life." Wieland felt the same. "When I heard her I immediately knew that there was nothing I could still teach her," he said later. The following year he overrode tradition and his family's objections and starred his unknown find in The Flying Dutchman. Also, in a move that his grandfather would have understood perfectly, Wieland, then a married man of 41, moved Anja and himself into a Munich...
...also shared the work of writing The Evolution of Physics, a 1938 text so fascinating to laymen that it hit the bestseller lists. At the University of Toronto, Infeld did pioneer work on the unified-field theory of magnetism and gravitation; then, in 1950, he suddenly returned home to teach-and proved something of a problem to the Communists, often criticizing Warsaw's scientific censorship...