Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the Chinese Republic (TIME, Oct. 15), Gen. Wu made no opposition and it was alleged that he had been "bought off." Apart from being a military genius, he is a man of culture, scientific and literary. He studies hard. Recently he began to learn English, employed a tutor, gave him his only spare hour-4:30 a. m. to 5:30 a. m. He is known as a "man who speaks softly and carries a big stick...
...Sargent was of Maine Puritan stock. His bodily vigor and passion for exercise revealed themselves during his school days. As a lad of 20, he was invited to direct the gymnasium of Bowdoin College. He accepted, sat to a tutor when not teaching the Bowdoinians to flex their limbs, became a Freshman himself. That was in 1871. The next year, Yale College, awakening to the new movement for physical education, sent for Sargent. Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years. In 1875, he was graduated by Bowdoin, entered the Yale...
...family, so often solved, has been solved again. In the expressive words of Le Matin, Paris Journal: "General Janin [onetime head of the French Mission in Siberia] has spoken." It appears that the General was given several urns of human ashes by the Russian General Diterichs and M. Gilliard, tutor to the little Tsarevitch. These gruesome relics he handed over to M. de Giers, quondam Russian Ambassador to Rome, and the latter has, apparently, handed them over to the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, cousin of the Tsar and leader of the world-scattered Russian Monarchists. Describing the contents...
...University, when he fell in love with the fair Georgina, butcher's daughter. Peter's stern parent forbade the match, threatened to cut him off with but a single pig. To cure him of his passion, it was decided to ship him off to Paris with his tutor and mentor, one Rufus Gabbe, M.A., Ph.D., panegyrist of Bah-Bah philosophy...
Engaged. Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, nee Frederica Vanderbilt Webb, who divorced her husband, publisher of The New York World, in Paris last April for "constructive desertion," to Cyril Jones, 34, onetime tutor to her sons and Secretary to Col. Edward M. House during the Versailles Peace Conference...