Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good morning to you!" said the Minister of Public Instruction and Art. With his finger and thumb he plucked an immensely valuable statuet from his pocket and waggled it under the curator's nose. "To teach you a lesson I run the risk of arrest as a thief. It is possible to walk into this museum as easily as into a mill. I was stopped by no one. I paid no admission. I could have filled my pockets with loot...
...Principal and Mistress, Comrades Mike & Fanny will teach U. S. tots that the U. S. and other "imperialist" powers are plotting and preparing war on Russia. Challenged recently by a visiting U. S. pastor who called Heaven to witness that the U. S. is profoundly peaceful, Borodin replied: "The people of America are very easily led. They had no notion of going into the World War, but imperceptibly their leaders carried them on until one morning they woke...
...prostitutes are reformed. At Moscow's school for ex-prostitutes last week the Soviet director declared: "Most prostitutes who come to us, and all must come voluntarily, are young peasant girls who have just arrived in Moscow from the country. They are glad to learn the trades we teach them-operating knitting machines and that sort of thing...
Gustav Holst, distinguished British composer, known for his orchestral, choral, and operatic works, will teach Composition in the course Music 7 under the Division of Music for the second half of the present academic year. Holst comes to Harvard under the Lamb Bequest, made possible through the generosity of Mrs. Horatio A. Lamb, in memory of her husband. Holst's works include an orchestral suite "The Planets", and a choral work "Hymn of Jesus...
...liberal-arts colleges, in teaching their sons how to live, teach them to live too well...