Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York University recently ousted Edwin Berry Burgum, associate professor of English, as "unfit to teach because of conduct unbecoming a teacher." This action followed the professor's refusal to state before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party...
...Bulgaria wanted vegetable oils; the U.S. has just imposed a stiff import quota on tung oil after spending thousands to teach the Paraguayans how to grow it for the U.S. market...
...right to license and control all the carts and carmen in London (retained until 1838); it became a favorite charity of various London guilds-the Skinners, the Dyers, the Innholders, the Tallow Chandlers. In 1673 Charles II founded the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, to teach navigation and thus supply the Navy with apprentice officers. Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, sponsored it and Sir Isaac Newton wrote its syllabus. Peter the Great of Russia borrowed two of its students ("King's boys" or "Mathemats") to help him found a similar school in Moscow...
...saying that "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," said Dr. Stieglitz, is a falsehood spread by young men who want their elders out of the way and by lazy oldsters who want an excuse for doing nothing...
...when you came," says one of the villagers to Sophie. And Sophie, her eyes still fixed on an invisible star, packs her bags and shoves off with her children, this time to teach Arabic in Lebanon-once she learns Arabic...