Word: teaching
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Nelson, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, will teach Physics 126, "Introductory Physics," next spring. Recently his research has focused on the transition between the solid and liquid phases of matter...
...that I would be most proud to teach down the hall from Helen Scott? I feel there is more than semantics involved when she refers to her class as "children" rather than "kids," and the individual as "a child" rather than...
...puzzling to the people of the northeast Texas farm town was Alvin Lee King himself. Raised in Corpus Christi by parents who owned a liquor store, pawnshop and jukebox leasing company, King came to Daingerfield in 1966 with Wife Gretchen, Daughter Cynthia and Son Alvin Lee King IV to teach high school math. That same year, while King was visiting his parents in Corpus Christi, he was examining a 12-gauge shotgun when it somehow discharged, killing his father. The coroner ruled the death accidental...
...Daingerfield High School, King was considered brilliant but an oddball. He refused to sign an oath, required of all local teachers, acknowledging God. His teaching methods were somewhat bizarre. For instance, he let students whose marks fell between Bs and Cs cut a deck of cards to determine their final grade. In 1972 he quit rather than teach retarded students, then became a truck driver...
International condemnation of the Vietnamese action was swift. China, which invaded Viet Nam early last year "to teach Hanoi a lesson," warned of the "grave danger" of such military adventures. "In dealing with wolves, it will have merely limited effect to raise a hue and cry," editorialized Hong Kong's pro-Communist daily Ta Kung Pao. "Only with the use of a big stick or of guns can the wolves be driven away or beaten to death...