Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince's father, the Duke of Edinburgh, who used to have a pretty good left hook himself, decided that his son should learn the manly art at an early age. Stephen was chosen to be a sparring partner by his school boxing instructor who was appointed to teach Prince Charles. Stephen, a 45-pounder who is boxing champion of his age group at school, is five pounds heavier than his opponent...
...Presbyterian George Buttrick, 62, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, which he will leave the first of next year, and eloquent preacher. He will teach homiletics and pastoral theology, will, hold the Plummer Professor ship of Christian Morals, whose occupant must be, according to its founder, "a Professor of the Philosophy of the heart, and of the moral, physical and Christian life in Harvard University...
...forgave his age and married him in 1928. On their honeymoon he tried to teach her physics, starting with Maxwell's Equations on the propagation of electromagnetic waves. He had no success, which was probably just as well. Fermi lived his professional life in the strange new world of mathematical physics; Laura did not try to follow him into his abstract jungle. She learned how to appreciate her husband in spite of quanta and nucleons...
...psychiatric help available to students before the Second World War, Farnsworth first made it an integral part of college health programs when he became director of health at Williams in 1945. He moved to the comparable post at M.I.T. the next year, and because of his patient work there, Teach students and faculty members have no compunctions about dropping in to consult psychiatrists...
...haunch man himself, Wilson may nevertheless be caught some day with his homilies down. If he is, there are a few other ways he can solve the nation's ills and still retain the dog-cared image. You can't teach an old dog new tricks might apply to any ex-communist, while the country's enemies, from Hiss to Ho Chi Minh, could be lumped under the heading of dogs in the manager. Although the Administration's critics usually bay at the moon, for those recurring embarrassments, like Senator McCarthy, there's the old wheeze about letting sleeping dogs...