Sentences with phrase «several young pupils»
At a time when the one - room schoolhouse has almost become extinct, the Long Beach Board of Education has given the go - ahead to a rural community on California's Santa Catalina Island to open one next fall to save several young pupils a two - hour daily commute to another school.
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In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.
There were several generations of Washington, DC, junior high school students, the youngest ones now approaching 70 years old, who had what I can only imagine was a formidable art education as Thomas» pupils.