Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gruber had any one thing to teach, it was the value of a return to the 15th and 16th Century German masters he himself most admired: Matthias Grünewald, Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Their art had been as strictly delineated, and often as sad and bitter cold as his, though far more ambitious. Had he lived, Gruber might conceivably have come to paint a Crucifixion as great as Grünewald's. He never got beyond showing how pathetic a nude model and how forbidding a winter landscape can look...
Very Small & Very Large. No meteorologist to begin with, Brooklyn-born Irving Langmuir was educated at Columbia University and Gottingen in Germany, settled down to teach chemistry at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1909 he joined General Electric's Research Laboratory, where he found the freedom he wanted to do research...
...Soviet broadcast in Swedish reported that U.S. troops in Sweden have been issued a Swedish phrase book to teach G.I.s how to steal and plunder. "We cite some of the sentences which the American soldiers in Sweden will have to know," said the broadcaster. " 'Draw a map for me.' As the authors of the dictionary obviously can envisage the surprised face of the Swede they add: 'I am an American.' As they can take it for granted that in spite of this, the Swede refuses to comply, the following sentence is recommended: 'Hand over your...
Anita Garibaldi, 60, granddaughter of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, and a namesake of the great liberator's Brazilian wife, enrolled at Naples' Oriental Institute to get a degree qualifying her to teach English in Rome's high schools...
...Fehsenfeld filed a motion for a new trial. He had done nothing illegal, he claimed, and the Santa Claus incident wasn't worth all that com motion. But he had a point to make on the subject, and he made it again: "Some people are more interested in teaching their children there is a Santa Claus and an Easter bunny than teaching about the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection. To teach your children it is a fact that there is a Santa Claus...