Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imperial limousine with the Emperor's chrysanthemum crest on the door. Furthermore, there was the problem of knowing how to address him. The new professor was none other than Prince Takahito Mikasa, 39, brother of the Emperor, and the only prince of the royal blood ever to teach in a classroom...
...right to marry as he chooses ("The Crown Prince is like a bird in a cage. If he prefers a love marriage, it should be recognized"). Meanwhile, he also became a recognized authority on the ancient Orient. For such a man, it seemed perfectly natural to sign up to teach at the Tokyo Women's College at $6.40 a month...
...retired chemical engineer-schoolteacher organized a class to teach the ladies how to make their own cosmetics ("as good as any you can buy and a lot cheaper"). A retired geologist spent his time producing an elaborate map of the estate and learning to refinish furniture...
...open. For months they had worked to infiltrate the local Chinese, who make up 80% of the city's 1,200,000 population. They wormed their way into control of unions, and organized a handy riot squad of 3,000 students (whose schools, say wags, now teach "reading, rioting and 'rithmetic"). To pay their way, they shook down wealthy Chinese merchants, those shrewd barometers of "who's ahead," who have become convinced that Red Peking is the way of the future...
...fortune to become an assistant to France's great Auguste Rodin. When Milles joined the faculty of Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1929 to teach sculpture (until 1950), he was already recognized as Sweden's greatest living sculptor...