Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often lately. Mrs. Youmans paused for breath. Well, said Teacher Dougherty, Howard had been absent a lot and- "I know more'n you do!" shouted Mrs. Youmans, catching her wind. "You don't know enough to teach the children good manners. I know the law. My husband's a policeman!" Teacher Dougherty indicated that if Mrs. Youmans was going to make a disturbance she would have to leave, but her voice died in her throat. Mrs. Youmans' eyes blazed. One of her sets of thick fingers had closed...
...answer to a question why college men prove to be better workers than those who have been less fortunate in their education, Mr. Zukor said, "College seems to teach them how to work, how to be efficient, and how to persevere. It teaches them to think rapidly and correctly and to act accordingly. College trains men for the motion picture business mentally and physically. This business is hard on a man. Whether he realizes it or not, a motion picture writer or actor is working most of the time until his play is produced. Whether he is at work...
...from the Kentucky Bible belt, one Dr. J. W. Gillon, quoted the Scriptures to prove that women should be ousted from the pulpits: Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak. ... (I CORINTHIANS 14:34) ... Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man. ... (I TIMOTHY...
...graces. He learns to sit down without thought of his coat-tail; he has to be able to tell what he thinks of Koussevitsky; he learns the proper interjections into a discourse that is beyond him. Quite naturally then, he comes by all Mrs. Post and Mr. Hubbard might teach...
...fond of saying he viewed things sub specie aeternitatis (from the viewpoint of eternity). Last week Holland began a seven-day demonstration of the 250th anniversary of his death. They unveiled and wreathed a tombstone at the Hague. Queen Wilhelmina sent a representative. Though their hero had refused to teach in any university, 60 institutions sent emissaries. Curator Oko of the world's largest library of the dead man's works, went all the way from Cincinnati. An international congress sat to philosophize in his name...