Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that the University had postponed his leave of absence and that he expected to teach until the Army decides whether or not to allow him entry...
...publish the good tidings. By morning the news had spread to the papers in Madrid. Gifts poured in from fashion houses and perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta (about $9,000) checking account at Carmen's disposal. An elderly and aristocratic spinster, hired to teach the new marchioness etiquette, announced with finality: "I need no legal proof to realize that Dona Maria is an authentic blue-blood...
...cash. The public has rushed in, but instead of chasing after low-priced and highly speculative "cats & dogs," it has usually bought "blue chips." Reason: the public is a lot smarter, partly because 1920's memories still linger but also because brokers have done a great deal to teach small investors what...
...poet as well as an adolescent, she is thin-skinned and imaginative, "an ugly duckling desperately trying to be a swan." The arrival of a young American (Thomas E. Breen) next door, brooding over his loss of a leg in the war, sets off the events that teach Harriet the sweet ache of first love, the terrible finality of death, the never-ending renewal of life...
...extent to which the teachers of social science prepare their students for citizenship is further limited by their self-imposed code. As in other subjects, such as philosophy and literature, in which it is likewise respectable to entertain different opinions, teachers hesitate to teach their students how to choose among opinions, and hesitate themselves to choose...