| 单词 | professor |
| 例句 | “Why do we feel that promoting marriage will solve the problem when there are so few marriageable men?” asked William Julius Wilson, professor of sociology and social policy at Harvard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “A lot of brilliant thinkers have come out of Riverview,” the professor said as he gestured for Grace and Jake to sit down. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The headline read: a professor’s final course: his own death The article caught the eye of a producer from the “Night- line” show, who brought it to Koppel in Washington, D.C. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd shifts uncomfortably, and the professor forces out a dry laugh. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “When I went to the university, I never had one Mexican-American professor. Not one.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Imagine that I’m a professor, and I’ve asked you to come and see me in my office. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The little professor stands at the chalkboard drawing a wiring schematic for a simple Morse-code practice circuit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the driver’s seat was a very thin young physics professor named Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At heart, he was a professor, not an industrialist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He found the professor in bed, sound asleep. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The project centered on a two-year-old girl from New Haven called Emily, whose parents — both university professors — began to notice that before their daughter went to sleep at night she talked to herself. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s just as bad on a higher level, and I’ve given up any attempt to discuss these things with the professors at Beekman. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some of the professors here recollected him as being a scamp,” the university said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t rightly know. You’d have to ask the professor, he’s the one that rigged up the contraption.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The Bible has much to teach, yet professors must use it judiciously, supplementing it with other sources, when they teach ancient Middle Eastern history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “While in Baltimore, I had the benefit of attending a lecture given by a professor named Ghering. You heard of him?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z You were also required to perform physical tasks now and then, such as lifting the professor’s head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The last class of my old professor’s life had only one student. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “The New York City public schools of the 1940s were considered the best schools in the country,” says Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who has written widely on the city’s educational history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Our law professor, Mr. Hahlo, was a strict, cerebral sort, who did not tolerate much independence on the part of his students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor—that madman—must have been chasing her, but the cornfield was so dark and seemed so determined to save her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her sainted professor is talking about the same science-y facts I did in the carriage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He walked around the store, whistling, hands in pockets, stupid safari-style hat on his fat head, and I wondered what it would be like to sit in a college class with him as the professor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z One day, in the failing light of dusk, Ugwu looked up and saw three soldiers barge into the compound and leave moments later, dragging the professor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I’m studying a professor who used to work here? His name was Jonathan Wick.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was the first week in September, back-to- school week, and after thirty-five consecutive autumns, my old professor did not have a class waiting for him on a college campus. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “A couple of the professors are refusing to submit a list.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway he related long pointless anecdotes of his undergraduate days, speaking familiarly of dead and departed professors by their first names, usually incorrect ones. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There is some shifting in the seats at this: nobody wants to think about breast-feeding, not the professor and certainly not the girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In May 1664, Hooke was a candidate for the post of professor of geometry at Gresham College, but lost out on the casting vote of the Lord Mayor. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His reputation—the gushing reports by his law school professors, the New York Times story about his selection as president of the Law Review—seemed to bring a flood of opportunity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But the professor holds his hands out in a placating gesture. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z To avoid drawing attention to the arrival of so many scientists, she cautioned them never to refer to each other as “doctor” or “professor” while in town. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But what Veblen could not have foreseen is where some of that pressure is coming from, says Juliet B. Schor, a professor of sociology at Boston College who has written widely on consumer culture. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When I asked her what her dad did, she said, “He’s a college professor. He teaches the dead languages.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a professor of mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On one previous occasion, Sproul had countered an offer from a rival university—Northwestern, in 1930—by maneuvering around faculty objections to promote Lawrence to a full professor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The “professor” group didn’t know more than the “soccer hooligan” group. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Adam Sedgwick, Charles’s old geology professor from Cambridge, declared that Vestiges was so uninformed and so inaccurate it could have been written by a woman! Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the professors used the Socratic method—direct, repetitive, and adversarial questioning—which had the incidental effect of humiliating unprepared students. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 1662, he moved again, to the University of Messina, but in 1666 he became professor of medicine in Bologna and stayed there for the next 25 years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But my old professor had made a profound decision, one he began to construct the day he came out of the doctor’s office with a sword hanging over his head. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had come out from Pennsylvania three years earlier to study at McKendree College, where an uncle was professor of natural philosophy, a subject that later generations would call physics. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the professor is way off in his own orbit—out where it doesn't matter how crazy your hair looks. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the only professor who had stayed with the students when they seized the building. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s about some missing Columbia professor he knew, so I gotta get into some files. But I don’t think they’ll let me in.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was an unusual story; market women fought, mad women fought, but not women who were professors. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And really, he didn’t look like a professor. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z At the moment I’m reading Emperor Charles V, written by a professor at the University of Gottingen; he’s spent forty years working on this book. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Bletchley Park, the U.K.’s secret code-breaking center, was staffed with hundreds of mathematicians, linguists, and professors, and it had dedicated units that could solve Abwehr Enigma with pencil and paper alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “My professors mention it from time to time. But I have a family,” Ashoke said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The data on wealth come from the Federal Reserve’s Consumer Finance Survey, analyzed by Ed-ward Wolff, a professor of economics at New York University. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z To me, the lectures were gibberish, probably because for most of January, I thought Europe was a country, not a continent, so very little of what the professor said made sense. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z While the peasantry was chuckling, the Pierce Arrow would buck away in clouds of gray smoke, while the professor up front rendered a few bars of Honk Honk Kadookah. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She sees her husband on weekends; he is a professor at a college in Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Reinforcing that finding is research by Dr. Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, who found through survey studies that people are happier at work when they use Facebook more. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She climbed into bed and spread the professor’s file out in front of her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He inspected me and wagged his tail as a professor wags a pencil—once to the left, once to the right, and return to center. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "That's what my professor says. But doesn't that make it too simple?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly half a century ago, a professor of entomology at Washington State College, A. L. Melander, asked the now purely rhetorical question, “Can insects become resistant to sprays?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I did what I had become best at doing: I tended to my work, even while my dying professor waited on his front lawn. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor smiles a little and inclines his head in the direction of the mayor and the man sitting next to him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In college she had harbored lengthy infatuations, with students with whom she never spoke, with professors and TAs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It’s never about what you think, it’s about what the professor wants you to think. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Most importantly, the professors treated her fairly, and she more than met the academic standard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Another of the Galileo legends introduced by Viviani refers to Galileo’s time as professor of mathematics in Pisa, but is, once again, almost certainly not true. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Up on stage, the professor and another man are pulling Othello back from the cage and settling him into the stage’s lone chair. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In a voice reflecting doubt, fear, and an unmistakable desire to be loved, I sounded not like a thoughtful college professor but, rather, like a high-strung twelve-year-old girl; someone named Brittany. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The professor told Princesse that she thought I had become distracted by superficial things, such as makeup and clothes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Would he have been unable to convince his professors to move his classes to the afternoon? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Leopold Kronecker was an eminent professor at the University of Berlin, and one of Cantor’s teachers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He had a grave, boyish dignity, that clean-eyed, scrubbed- brain, naive look of the happy professor. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru was used to seeing her dressed like a shabby professor, in a blazer with scuffed elbows and a worn skirt with the hem coming undone. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I started my classes and got a job with a professor of psychology named Dr. Roland. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In late November, with only a few weeks to go before the design was due to her professor, she and two classmates drove down to Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “There’s two kinds of them college professors,” Dad said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They begin to file out quickly but much more calmly, the professor all but forgotten. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you read about those fancy professors asking those questions in that—that Convocation? Why, they’d’ve let her right in. If it hadn’t been for those fraternity boys....” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But after all, Mr. Monroe is a college professor and Mrs. Monroe is a lawyer, so we think of it as a rather special household. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Then there were lecturers, then there were assistant professors, then there were tenured professors. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was thirty-four years old, and on this day one year ago he had been a professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood awkwardly in the back until the professor, a thin woman with delicate features, motioned for me to take the only available seat, which was near the front. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Fourteen years after the incident with the Weavers, I would sit in a university classroom and listen to a professor of psychology describe something called bipolar disorder. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As a result of this introduction to literature, and given the fact that Mr. Monroe is an English professor, Chester developed a taste for reading early in life. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I dig my fingers into my thighs, biding my time so I can see what kind of foolishness this professor is playing at. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The professor remained in front of the room, collecting his papers and books. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the Mellower spoke of Mother’s chemistry discoveries and her position as a professor at the University. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He still wore a pair of mechanical pencils clipped to his shirt pocket, just as he had in his professor days, but now he wore a white apron too, and a brown pot holder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His paternal grandfather, a former professor of European literature at Calcutta University, had read from them aloud in English translations when Ashoke was a boy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Anything that creates turbulence creates the opportunity for people to get rich,” said Christopher S. Jencks, a professor of social policy at Harvard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z With that step, Ernest Lawrence became more than just another physics professor with a clutch of graduate students in his charge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Class awareness and the class language is receding at the very moment that class has reorganized American society,” said Michael Hout, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The former thought might preoccupy professors in departments of psychology, and their colleagues in the neighboring departments of neuroscience. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Claytor’s brusque manner intimidated most of his students, who couldn’t keep up as the professor furiously scribbled mathematical formulas on the chalkboard with one hand and just as quickly erased them with the other. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the idea of a university professor making money from what were essentially the fruits of academic research left him uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was a professor of metaphysical philosophy at the university. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Two other professors from Beekman who had arrived in Chicago just this morning joined us. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In my era at Truman, many graduates did go on to achieve high levels of success—they became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners, high-ranking military officers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z A typical office worker was getting interrupted by various media stimulation every three minutes in 2004, according to research by Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When the professors learned that students who did not maintain a certain grade point average could lose their deferments and be drafted, they decided not to give any grades. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim also served as a Harvard professor in medicine and was chair of its Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Linda Price, a marketing professor at the University of Nebraska and a pioneer in Maven research, has made videotapes of interviews she’s done with a number of Mavens. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But filling its spacious offices and laboratories with appropriately distinguished professors was not as easy as getting the structure built. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Chapter thirty for next time. And don’t forget there’s a screening of Meet the Patels tonight at the Cantor Film Center,” the professor calls as my fellow students and I gather our notebooks and backpacks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The whole thing was secret, but it had something to do with plastic and polymers, which were also the professor’s specialty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He was a professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He shows her the American professor’s house where he and his parents once lived, a time before Sonia was born, years that he has no memory of. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon after Mendel was done, a professor of botany stood up to discuss Darwin's Origin and the theory of evolution. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Goldfarb looked like a professor with his beard, his slight stoop, his tweed and corduroy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She wanted to show us the other side of Marguerite Cartwright Avenue, where the seasoned professors lived, with the duplexes hemmed in by gravely driveways. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad's off in science land with his pal the professor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The phone on the far end of the line called Faber's name a dozen times before the professor answered in a faint voice. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered, briefly, if Irwin would send his check to the hospital after that, and then I thought, "Of course he will, he's a mathematics professor—he won't want to leave any loose ends." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I would feel the same way. Did she really fight with another professor?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My old professor was taking morphine now to ease his breathing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The university’s professor of mathematics was Michael Maestlin, who dutifully taught his students in public the Ptolemaic system approved by the Reformed Church. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In a rambling treatise entitled The Racial Biology of Jews, Otmar von Verschuer, a professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, argued, for instance, that neurosis and hysteria were intrinsic genetic features of Jews. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The professor keeps talking and I keep dreaming and I begin to write a letter to the founder. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The professor was likable, it was the sixties, not having your creative juices flowing was understandable. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I push my way through the crowd to the front of the room, where Othello has just about had his fill of the professor. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Except for the professor working with him on his master’s thesis. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He even repeats exactly his professor’s earlier comment. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even her professors were a little wary of her—her bizarre, impractical building plans, presented on cheap brown paper, her indifference to their passionate critiques. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Harvard professor was known for his vast knowledge of international affairs—and his habit of insulting whoever was not in the room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He introduced me to his father, the English professor. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Now that most of the chatter has died down, the professor has moved across to the cage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But I doubt the professor was much impressed by my observation that, “When you chop a chicken’s head off, you shouldn’t smile because you might get blood and feathers in your mouth.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In a panel on sex with four professors, trying to keep related words together won’t help: they already are together. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She said she had spoken to a professor at Houghton—one of my favorite professors, a woman from Kenya—to ask her why I had left school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The next year, the professor suggested Terryl do her persuasive address on violence in advertising. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Our former technical sciences professor, Dr. Hauptmann, has called our attention to the discrepancy. He has arranged that you will be sent to a special technology division of the Wehrmacht.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All I knew was this: Morrie, my old professor, wasn’t in the self-help business. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of them spoke and paid tribute to my old professor. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Son to an English professor who hated everything about the South, grandson to a gentleman farmer who loved everything about it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The UN Refugee Agency had sent out a bulletin about Mariam, and Habib’s professor and his sons were looking for any news of her in Jalalabad. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z No offense, but very few people are interested in how professors spend their time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The bitter little man who taught the course was the lone professor in the school who had guts enough to try to teach it, and even he evinced the rigidity of imperfect understanding. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The visitor was about the same age as Hallgrimsson, but he looked older; certainly his face bore the marks of more experience and trial than did the professor’s smooth cheeks and unlined brow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When she was an upperclassman, one of Dorothy’s professors at Wilberforce recommended her for graduate study in mathematics at Howard University, in what would be the inaugural class for a master’s degree in the subject. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The professor had told her about doll’s eyes, another name for the white baneberry that could cause cardiac arrest. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She’s the person I’ve spent the least amount of time with on this trip, quiet and thoughtful, and a retired college professor always busy with charity work. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z They stole books, ruined paintings, and broke scientifical equipment stored there by the professors of King’s College. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then go talk to your algebra professor,” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And she stayed there six days—until he promised to hire more women as professors. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I left a note for the professor in my own department at Berkeley who was in charge of helping graduate students look for teaching positions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in 1927, a professor of zoology in a Texas university, Dr. H. J. Muller, found that by exposing an organism to X-radiation, he could produce mutations in succeeding generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Though he is now a tenured full professor, he stops wearing jackets and ties to the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I used the memory technique she had learned from a college professor who’d passed through Garland in the early seventies. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I chose the professor of my Jewish history class, because he was quiet and soft-spoken. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As professor Sheri Lynn Johnson once remarked, “If prosecutors exist who...cannot create a ‘racially neutral’ reason for discriminating on the basis of race, bar exams are too easy.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was a full professor of the University of Cairo, on leave from there to be in New York as the Director of the Federation of Islamic Associations in the United States and Canada. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor had to go get her out of the bathroom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The professor marches over to where Othello stands next to the cage, a matter-of-fact smile on the academic’s face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I know that I’m not educated, professor,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s nuts\\ He swears that his university professor had him locked up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I feel ashamed standing in front of the professor with dirty feet.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an unmarried professor of physics at Yale. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But the professor barely mentioned them at all, and instead talked about “philosophical underpinnings” and the writings of Cicero and Hume, names I’d never heard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The professor recited facts in a dull, earthy voice: the average age of onset is twenty-five; there may be no symptoms before then. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The pilgrim, a professor, a monk, and some sort of hermit all meet and hash over things. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The professor stopped when it was pointing at a tiny picture of the sun. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The colored man next to the professor waves at the crowd uncertainly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It didn’t take a professor to make the connection. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I can’t. I’m playing in a string quartet at some professor’s house. What about next weekend?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Even / almost believed he was a professor of psychology. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Freak is all dressed up, too, he's wearing this tweedy new suit jacket that has patches on the elbows and Grim says all he needs is a pipe and he'll look like quite the professor. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Then came a widely reported lecture at Northwestern University by AEC commissioner Willard Libby, a former Berkeley chemistry professor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His mom taught French at the prestigious and expensive Kalman School downtown, and his dad was a sociology professor at Northwestern University, just north of the city. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The last time I saw her was the night of Professor Ghering's lecture, when she stood along the wall, nodding in agreement as I protested using that poor man in that professors ill-conceived experiment. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Her parents didn't see the way Valley snapped at their professors and didn’t seem to care about her schoolwork or how she was always on her own doing sneaky, probably terrible, things. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “I remember one professor at Stanford who confirmed the concept and its function but said he wanted to be invited back when we got to an ‘aesthetically refined prototype,’” Dowell remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Had it not been for a determined English professor named Arthur Holmes, the quest might well have fallen into abeyance altogether. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a big deal to be offered this visiting professor fellowship,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Why shouldn’t a Marine Corps general have as many books as an English professor? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We quizzed everyone we met, from pastors to professors to the manager of the neighborhood McDonald’s, asking them to identify the most interesting young people they knew. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What had that professor been saying about the Gobblers? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z "At first I kept thinking all my professors were celibate," I say. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z This is why she gets the professor of the year award so much—everyone always wants to be in her movie with her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Just after the First World War, Lewis Terman, a young professor of psychology at Stanford University, met a remarkable boy named Henry Cowell. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor of government, takes the extreme view that Mexicans will not assimilate and that the separate culture they are developing threatens the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Conventional big classes have become so diverse—in income, lifestyle, political views—that they have ceased to be classes at all, said Paul W. Kingston, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When she presented her design for her final class project, the professor didn’t think much of her concept and gave her a B. But Lin believed in her design. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Instead of coming back from Oxford after those twelve weeks, she’d stayed on to do a summer course, explaining that a professor she admired would be retiring after that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z With a ball in his hand, the park handyman became a professor. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor presses one of his palms flat to the desk while reading, frowning absently, as though waiting for a thought to pass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His professors in Michigan had little to say about his academic talents but recalled that he had distinguished himself in a different way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I pinched a corner, pulled the paper away from the professor’s knees, and passed it up to my dad. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The next afternoon I met a Mexican American crop scientist named Ricardo Salvador, a professor at Iowa State University. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I knew someone must have the answer so I decided to ask one of my professors. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Alba did not resent his mocking nickname for her; in fact, on more than one occasion she had fantasized about seducing the stalwart professor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The personality of Mr. Tuffett was less inspiring: he was a disappointed man, a frustrated professor of education with no sympathy for young people. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sitting at the chess table, the professor and the teenager created an almost comic tableau. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Williams is a biology professor at City College. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The navigator and nose gunner would be Robert Mitchell, a professor’s son from Illinois. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, most certainly not,” the professor says, his already ruddy face going positively crimson. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He expected the professors and students there to have opinions about politics, religion, and literature beyond what he'd experienced in Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was just a few bars, if you please, professor, of that sentimental little ditty entitled “Those Wedding Bells Are Breaking up That Old Gang of Mine.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z We became our own faculty, with our own professors, our own curriculum, our own courses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her father is some sort of math professor and sent her to East Prussia where she might be safer. She ended up working on a farm.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I shouldn’t think so. She knows professors and scholars and people like that. He’s different.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The professor adjusted the lampshade so that the light fell full on the stool, and took the instrument out of its box. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z One particular university’s “token-integrated” black Ph.D. associate professor I never will forget; he got me so mad I couldn’t see straight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My old professor, meanwhile, was stunned by the normalcy of the day around him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The professors behind him scribbled on their clipboards. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Our classmates tease us about how smart we are: "You'll both end up being doctors or professors or something. Your kids will be geniuses." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she types up a new envelope and puts the original in the professor’s mailbox. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “People like having stuff, and stuff is good for people,” said Thomas C. O’Guinn, a professor of advertising at the University of Illinois who has written textbooks on marketing and consumption. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Many professors were fired, arrested, or simply disappeared, in accordance with a blacklist in the hands of the political police. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Several fellow professors, however, watched this performance with mixed feelings. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Ashoke has been hired as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He gave the hardest job, that of figuring out how to create a perfectly symmetrical explosion, to a chemistry professor named George Kistiakowsky—Kisty for short. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s awful. All those math classes I signed up for...well, I don’t have the foggiest idea what’s going on. The professor’s talking in the lecture hall, and it’s like he’s speaking another language.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “This society is unforgiving, relentless, and the competition is constant,” Andrew Eungi Kim, a sociology professor at Korea University, one of the country’s most elite schools, told me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The owner tells us he’s a professor of anthropology, as if we care. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Educated Englishmen could read it; by using it, Bruno signalled that he was addressing himself to poets and courtiers, not to professors of mathematics or philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Emma Jean was valedictorian of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s class of 1946, working her way through school serving meals in the dining hall and grading papers for professors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For my old professor, it was not the talk of being sick but the being sick itself that was sinking him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dad’s going to be a visiting professor for a year at the University of Chicago. I think they’re interested in hiring him.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The professors had declared an indefinite strike and the students had taken over all the buildings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My last novel, A Season for Ashes, had been about a university professor who joins a clan of gypsies after he finds his wife in bed with one of his students. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Now, go ahead and stick your hand in the cage,” the professor says. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z At this point, I should explain what had happened to me since that summer day when I last hugged my dear and wise professor, and promised to keep in touch. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were about twenty people in the room, most of them professors or graduate students. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Chevalier was a professor of French literature at Berkeley and the host of the Communist discussion group at which Oppenheimer had been spotted by the FBI about two years earlier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to say that he was the best professor that I ever had,” s/he wrote. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t trouble yourself,” called a professor in the front row. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The other students in Art and Archaeology are all girls but one, just as the professors are all men but one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From 1871, when he joined the university as a professor, to his death in 1903, his courses attracted an average of slightly over one student a semester. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z ‘More than anything else in my life,’ the professor told the reporter with finality, ‘these books have made me all that I am.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While sitting on a table in the examining room, I was looked at by a young and amiable doctor who was also a professor at the university medical school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Something in Werner’s soul shuts its scaly eyes, and the little professor raises his pistol and fires it into the sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Only a consummate politician could have balanced the interests of regents, legislators, professors, and philanthropists to build the University of California into the first-class academic institution it had become. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The professor saw drive and strength in the young woman, the voracious reader with the discipline, Terryl recounts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z This is thanks to visiting New York with my mother, who is a college professor and writer. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “You would have been a fine university professor,” he said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A current favorite author was Francis Newman, a Latin professor at University College London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z No titles were necessary, he declared proudly, because “there is no higher title than professor in the Radiation Laboratory.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the sight of my old professor, I froze. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not running away, it’s being realistic. By the time we get into university, the good professors will be fed up with all this nonsense and they will go abroad.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we get to the panel on sex with four professors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The mother did not know that the handsome, greying professor at her side knew her daughter at all; she thought he was just someone interested in her poetry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “My mom’s a sociology professor,” he says, his face turning strawberry red. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Helmholtz was an associate professor at the Prussian University of Konigsberg and one of the leading scientists of his day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The professor is feeling his oats now, and he struts across the stage confidently. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Half were asked to take five minutes beforehand to think about what it would mean to be a professor and write down everything that came to mind. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One night, early in the war, Robert Oppenheimer drove to the home of a friend and fellow Berkeley professor, Haakon Chevalier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor had told us to find a subject and go take some portraits. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “You, on the other hand, look too young to be a professor. Your students must be confused about who the professor is.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Rickshaw drivers dress better than professors here, Ashoke, who still attends meetings with his adviser in a jacket and tie, thinks frequently to himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Kids are not going to spontaneously ask for a parent,” explains Barry Feld, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and one of the nation’s leading experts on juvenile justice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As the professor, he was the last one down the stairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A more helpful measurement perhaps is that it was four times the salary of the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge: so let’s say £400,000. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As she returns to her office, she realizes there’s no stamp or postmark on the new envelope, worries that the professor will suspect something. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He says he’s an Ivy League professor and he knows the deal, and he wonders what it would feel like if he were some poor kid from the inner city. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Darryl is a professor of social and religious history, an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and still a religious conservative—though not always predictably so. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Students from the arts college, old people, veterans, politicians, businessmen, professors, housewives—you name it, they were there. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We had a professor to find—and quick. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He listened to the professor’s version of the tale, which differed only slightly from the one he knew, waiting for the opportunity to steer the conversation the way of his question. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Naw. Grades suck. Anyway, I only like to read the stuff I want to read. Not what a professor wants me to read.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z You could almost read the scrutiny in the gaze of certain students and even some professors, as if they wanted to say, “I know why you're here.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Graduate Dean George Birkhoff assured Ernest of Harvard’s high esteem for Oppenheimer “as a creative theorist” and confided that the university was willing to appoint him as an associate professor at $6,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He reminded me of the old professor in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z There were Paderewski, Houdini, Tesla, Edison, Joplin, Darrow, a Princeton professor named Woodrow Wilson, and a sweet old lady in black summer silk flowered with forget-me-not-blue named Susan B. Anthony. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "Factitious!" my creative writing professor at college scrawled on a story of mine called "The Big Weekend." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Near the end of his voyage, he had heard from one of his sisters that Henslow and another old professor of his, Adam Sedgwick, were both very interested in the bones he had sent back. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She is a professor in the psychology department, where she supervises students who are getting master’s degrees. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his radio on and heard the professor discussing Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Of course, I had no idea whether Irwin would invite me back to his apartment after dinner or not, but I thought his dismissal of the Slavic lady—another professor's wife—looked promising. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The professor opened a drawer in the little table and brought out a leather box, circular in shape and about the size of the palm of a man’s hand, and three fingers deep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As the professor told Mrs. Singleton that Colin was brilliant, was a very special boy, Colin played with wooden alphabet blocks. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The professor called on me, and I read the sentence aloud. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Burt introduced me to an economics professor at the faculty cafeteria, one well known for his work on the economic factors affecting interest rates. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Max Delbriick was in the expected group, and since he was a professor at Cal Tech he might have further news about Pauling’s latest trick. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As a young professor at Wilberforce College in Ohio, Du Bois had initially praised Washington’s 1895 speech, telegraphing his congratulations “upon your phenomenal success at Atlanta—it was a word fitly spoken.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The professors guarded expression fades, and he gives me a benevolent smile. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Irwin was a full professor at twenty-six and had the pale, hairless skin of a boy genius. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid not, though I’ve done as much as I can. Practically speaking, I can’t give you an answer. Even a math professor would have a tough time with this one.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Javier wrote her a long letter after his father died three years ago, and said he’d finally become a professor of biochemistry at the University of Prague, lecturing in Russian, German, and Czech. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As my old professor searched for answers, the disease took him over, day by day, week by week. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good thing,” Alex says, “I filibustered one of my professors into agreeing a question on our last exam was misleading so I would get full credit for my answer, which was correct.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Thankfully, I manage to tell her about my history professor, who swears during lessons, rides a motorcycle, and seems much more like someone you'd meet at a bar than in a lecture hall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z By the day of the decision, Ralph had talked himself out of wanting to be a professor anyway. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed none of the disconnect between what he did and what he believed that I'd seen in so many of my law professors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As it happened, the Faculty Board passed my petition, and my Class Dean told me later that several of the professors were touched by it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “You should go to college. Become a professor like Mother and Father wanted. And we have to build a cocoonery, remember.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Despite all his wiles, Moose failed to sway the professor. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In February, the professor announced that instead of a single midterm he would be giving monthly exams, the first of which would be the following week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yes. She is now teaching in America. She shares a cramped office with another adjunct professor, but she says at least teachers are paid there.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In the professor's opinion, the bullet rested against important nerves, and he recommended leaving it there. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I would have liked you to become a university professor. But I think you have already decided. Am I right?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “No . . . only short field trips. My dad—” “The history professor.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z When one of my professors happened to learn this, late in November, he was astonished. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The greedy professor makes his domain in the Tower. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z They send professors into middle schools to do research and run tests; they publish thousand-page studies. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I have what the Republic considers good genes— and better genes make for better soldiers make for better chance of victory against the Colonies, my professors always say. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z This morning the young professor drove me back to Atlanta. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Panofsky, who had risen precociously in his two years at Berkeley to the rank of associate professor, detested the very idea of the oath, but signed— “reluctantly,” as he put it later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Someone at the sherry party had wondered if the professor had seen my latest article on affirmative action. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After she had worked for the professor for a month, he started bringing Roza little gifts. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z As the professor turned the wheel, they saw a slender black hand, like a minute hand, detach itself from the complicated background and move around the dial with a series of clicks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Such were the professor’s words—rather let me say such the words of the fate—enounced to destroy me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduating third in his class from Harvard University, Ellsberg stunned friends and professors alike by applying for officer’s training with the Marine Corps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My old professor had even coaxed compassion out of the television business. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His old professor Adam Sedgwick wrote to him, “I have read your book with more pain than pleasure.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor Hunk has a visiting professor colleague, a Jewish guy with a thick accent from the kind of European country where most people drink a glass of antisemitism at breakfast. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “This is the first I’ve heard of it, professor,” I said, amazed again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not about to argue with a full professor, but if you ever have a really unbreakable case of insomnia, do yourself a favor and start reading Chapter Three of the uncut version. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I like to think it was a fleeting moment of satisfaction for my dear old professor: he had finally made me cry. he whispered. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The dragon lady turns her full fury on the professor. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Seaborg had accepted an appointment at Berkeley as a full professor, with the authority to hire four assistant and associate professors and twelve salaried graduate fellows. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Later, in the afternoon, after the professors had huddled and made several phone calls, the college held a press conference. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He was this local guy, a professor at the University of Utah, who seemed to be an authority on the risks of texting while driving and talking on the phone while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Then he started getting phone calls from former professors, and the president of Harvard. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A New York medical school professor performed an experiment to track the bullet's probable path. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z David became a psychologist, earning a PhD in 1986 from Texas Tech University, and, eventually, becoming an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I’ve been lucky enough now in my life to meet all sorts of extraordinary and accomplished people—world leaders, inventors, musicians, astronauts, athletes, professors, entrepreneurs, artists and writers, pioneering doctors and researchers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After class, while I packed up my luggage of schoolbooks, I heard him talking to the professor how he'd gotten stuck and couldn't think of anything. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The student who is not a girl and the professor who is not a man are considered strange; the first has an unfortunate skin condition, the second a nervous stammer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She tells me about education courses in college in which professors advised future teachers that they had to win respect from students before they showed much of their own humanity. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z She moldered in humid rooms with droning biology and composition professors. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z One of the opposition leaders, a forty-one-year-old professor, later said it was his thirteen-year- old daughter who insisted he attend the protest, despite his fear. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The university is a delightful place; lots of room in the classes and residences, no crowding in the cafeteria, and the professors are solicitous. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z All of a sudden everyone seemed to know—as the professor of English had known—that I was a minority student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Cambridge, England, was behind Cambridge, Massachusetts: at Harvard, George Sarton gave his first lecture course in the history of science in 1917 and became professor of the history of science in 1940. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The professor spent every lecture muttering inaudibly as he paced in front of the chalkboard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He introduced himself as a physics professor who now worked for the government in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I happened to kill the man the professor turned after his vaccine failed. Professor Ghering was no Louis Pasteur, I can tell you that. You can ask my Miss Katherine, she was there, too.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When someone is doing two things at once, “there is an illusion of productivity,” David E. Meyer, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan told me for the story. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Each press is like a question,” explains Dan Bernstein, a professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, where he has an office down the hall from Dr. Atchley. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At its inception, the division had a roster of four faculty members, including John, who was appointed an assistant professor of medical physics and mostly paid out of the Physics Department budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roommates and midterm exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The motion sought to disallow the testimony of David Strayer, the professor at the University of Utah, who is expert in distracted driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Well, how about that. The pretty little lady here doesn’t want to miss the professor’s lecture.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I’m a university, professor with a highly developed sense of right and wrong, and I wouldn’t try to deceive you. I wouldn’t lie to anyone.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He knew nothing about my personal life as a father and husband and seemed utterly uninterested in my background as a former newspaper reporter and editor, TV producer, and professor turned media critic and author. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprinted to the campus of the University of California, where he taught, and ran from lab to lab with the news, soon bumping into one of his fellow professors, Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor turns to me, adjusting his spectacles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I asked Violet, “Your father, he’s a college professor, but he was too busy to come see you after you like completely collapsed from a hacker attack? Too busy?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There, Bruce discovered three copies of the ancient text and returned to Europe with them, leading to their later translation into English by Oxford professor Dr. Richard Laurence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Werner is summoned to the office of the technical sciences professor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mr. A’s avatar looked like a portly, bearded college professor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Maybe I can be a doctor or a lawyer, or maybe a professor like some other important Parks. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z After graduate work at Penn State and the University of Chicago, he was hired as a Harvard professor at age twenty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Dad had also combed his hair and put on his wire-rimmed glasses, so he came off more like a college professor than a boat vandal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The professor takes out his handkerchief and mops his brow once more before tucking it back into his pocket. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “There’s no need to gobble your grapefruit like a pig,” Fred told a woman professor from Columbia University, who had arrived late and was trying to catch up with the rest of us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z At least not as a professor at any school that receives public funding. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z No wonder the local people began to think the professor was crazy! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z At a formal dinner once a professor of some science or other, wanting to make small talk, had pointed out a few insects gyrating above a candelabra. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The professor said nothing for a few moments. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He and Patricia went to see a Harvard Law professor she knew. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At the track, where he sat in the stands for hours staring at the horses through binoculars, he was known as “the professor.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, I yelled, “Viva los Freedom Writers!” in front of an audience of university professors at UC-Irvine’s “Pursuit of Peace” conference today. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z So they're in academic heaven, talking about this professor and that course, this novel and that poem, and all of a sudden I'm afraid that they might turn into good friends after all. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I copied the date into my notes with a question mark, but as more photographs flashed across the screen, it became clear which century the professor meant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I was fortunate enough to go to the Santa Rosa, California, home of Dr. George McCabe, a San Francisco State University professor, and his wife, Carol, and their four children. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to learn, professor,” I told him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of being a forest-insect field researcher, he is now a university professor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But, united by excitement, the professors were not so easily intimidated. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Like he’s already a college professor impressed with the sound of his own voice? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Two Princeton University geology professors received word that a meteor had fallen just a few miles away from campus. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It is at these times that I realize he is indeed a professor, not an uncle. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “As I explained in our last class, onions form the base of most Pakistani curries,” she intones like a college professor. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Up front, the professor, a bald white man with small spectacles and a florid face, has already started delivering his remarks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The professor opens his mouth, but before he can speak, a low growl comes from the rear of the stage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I sometimes think it would be a good idea if math professors and elementary-school teachers switched places for a few weeks each year. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Richard with unconcealed pride that he had formerly worked for the Irish priest Father Bernard and the American professor Land. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Ginika said you left Nigeria because college professors are always on strike there?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The professor looked awkward for a second, and then his eagerness overcame his reluctance. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He tells me he's majoring in photography and that one of his professors told him to take as many photographs as he could over the summer. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Even further into the void,” said the professor of experimental theology, taking a glass from his host. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Psychologists, professors, journalists, and critics rediscovered Malcolm X for review and general analysis. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But some old literature professor from the university had died and bequeathed his Hamburg to our school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seriously, it’s like history for dummies. No, strike that. It’s like white male history for dummies. The professor totally ignores every major contribution by anyone who wasn’t a white dude.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Hank, a retired professor of classical archaeology, always brings a small volume of Greek poetry to read, his long sun-spotted fingers curling over the tops of the pages. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then again, how many business or law students ever visit their old professors once they leave? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Okeke and his family had not returned, and now a bowlegged man, a professor of chemistry who cooked on firewood and had a chicken coop, lived there. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Jill would garner pledges from colleges and universities to train teachers and professors to better understand the needs of military children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The professor moved the second hand to the griffin and the third to the dolphin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z While we travel, Katherine and Miss Duncan chatter on about the professor’s theories on why the dead rise and whatnot. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z While sitting in on other professors’ lectures, Oppenheimer was known to squirm impatiently. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another e-mail came from a corporation in Pennsylvania, less formally written, telling her a local professor had identified her as a provocative race blogger and asking if she would lead their annual diversity workshop. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z On every campus, on every faculty, there were exceptions—remarkable professors who took it upon themselves to act as tutors, advisors, friends. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It shows the importance of work and marriage,” said Sara S. McLanahan, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton who specializes in family and poverty. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “The Lord has a few choice rebukes for me to give them professors.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She had glanced often at Blaine, like a student at a professor, gauging her performance from his expression. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Word had spread that one of his professors at Harvard—the daughter of a managing partner—claimed he was the most gifted law student she’d ever encountered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She could be back in the greenhouse listening to the gray-faced professor drone on about his plants. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The professor turned to a small table no more than an arm’s length from his comfortable chair and poured some golden wine into three glasses. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He wound up studying sociology at Princeton and then becoming a professor at Stanford. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In Edinburgh, some of the professors and students loved natural history, and Charles learned from them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had to borrow the car from my professor.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Morrie had counseled so many unhappy lovers in his years as a professor. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was carrying a leather shoulder bag like a professor. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine the future, to populate it with professors, homework, classrooms, but my mind couldn’t conjure them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The buyers are an American family, the Walkers, a young professor new to the university where her husband used to work, and a wife and daughter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Although styled professor of mathematics, his brief included what we would now call physics and was then called natural philosophy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z My professor, Linda Heywood, was slight and bespectacled, spoke with a high Trinidadian lilt that she employed like a hammer against young students like me who confused agitprop with hard study. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The girl with the long dreads lived in a house with a man, a Howard professor, who was married to a white woman. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The professors told me that every case is different. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The highlight came when Berrange read Murray a passage that the professor unhesitatingly described as “communism straight from the shoulder.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, nne, we are fine. The people who might worry are those that live near the vice chancellor. Last time, the students burned a senior professor’s car.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I know who you are, Mr. Potter, but even you must understand that it’s against school covenant for parents or professors to enter a House quarters without express permission from . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The professors had made a mistake, and no one else had caught it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The envelope is addressed to a professor of Comparative Literature who teaches German as well as French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But each month, new agents posing as businesspeople, diplomats, professors, and other unassuming characters quietly joined the fight against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The professor produces a tin with a bow on it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The scout was Leonard B. Loeb, professor of physics at the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ifemelu had met him a few times, an assistant professor of history who had lived in Congo as a child. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His name was George Papadimitriou, and he was the professor of Byzantine history who had first recruited her for Oakley Street two years before. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “My dad is a professor at West Point,” she said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But that day, Mate read right out how there had been a demonstration at the university, led by a bunch of young professors, all members of the Communist party. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The morning of the exam, the professor instructed everyone to take out their blue books. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her dad is a professor, too, but he’s on something called sabbatical. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A professor with a head like a pink bowling ball hurried in the direction of the pool, towel under his arm. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Almost the only person who believed that something really bad might happen was Jack Hyde, a geology professor at a community college in Tacoma. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Though I had never had any assignments from a college professor, I had made much harder and more prolonged attempts at self-expression than any of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor agreed it would be a good, contemporary end to their studies. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Few of my classmates or professors knew of my church-bombing experience or any of the other traumatic events from my childhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Malpighi studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Bologna, graduating in 1653, and became a lecturer in logic at Bologna, before moving to the University of Pisa in 1656 as professor of theoretical medicine. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The top two floors of the house are occupied by their landlords, the Montgomerys, a Harvard sociology professor and his wife. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The position was offered at the last minute, when the scheduled professor found a better-paying job delivering pizza. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Everybody says he’s going to be full professor next year.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A professor gave him a key for after-hours access to the library, where he spent much of his free time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After about a half hour of touring the lower and upper quads, some of the dorms, and the Cramton Auditorium, it’s time to sit in on a lecture by one of Howard’s professors. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The professor replied with arch politeness, ‘And what does Mr. Rodriguez have to complain about?’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew about Nigerians, he told her, he was an assistant professor at Yale, and although his interest was mostly in southern Africa, how could he not know about Nigerians when they were everywhere? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with his initials on the front. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ambady compared those snap judgments of teacher effectiveness with evaluations of those same professors made by their students after a full semester of classes, and she found that they were also essentially the same. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The professor started explaining again about what all he expected from us in the course. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I wanted the professor to shout at me, wanted it so deeply I felt dizzy from the deprivation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The ten empty seats became an obsession to weary workers,” wrote Jo Ann Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College at the time. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I don’t like this blowhard professor very much. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He taught proudly, like a great professor, a professor everyone agreed deserved his tenure. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, sometimes professor of “Natural and Revealed Religion,” successor to the chair of the famed Professor Stowe, husband to Harriet Beecher. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No one there knew he was a prominent doctor of sociology, with years of experience as a college professor and several well-respected books. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was sometimes difficult to believe that Dr. Roland was a tenured professor in the Social Science Department of this, a distinguished college. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “My dad’s already called some professor he knows at Montana State,” she told a few of us who were clustered around her locker. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Inside the building were a single large laboratory and a smaller lab for the “professor,” a room for experimental equipment, and a lecture theater. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z None of my professors at BYU had examined my writing the way Professor Steinberg did. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One day I came across a newspaper article about the retirement of an English professor at a nearby state college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grandfather’s name in this strange professor’s journal. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z When Martha arrived, she was accompanied by her cousin Melville Vaughan, a biology professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His father got his degree from Cambridge University and was an economics professor. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The difference is in where the phrase with four professors is attached. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One of his guests was a university colleague, Axel Löfgren, professor of experimental theology. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Chevalier was a Berkeley French professor and, along with his wife, a member of the Oppenheimers’ social and intellectual circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With the help of the Academy’s professors, they divided the school’s violinists into three groups. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Now he’d been invited to Harvard to speak to the graduate students of Henry Kissinger, a professor of international relations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When the bell rang, the professor approached my desk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She wrote Curtis MacDougall, a college professor she knew, and asked him to persuade his students to collect money for the appeal and write Claudette messages of support. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Only with some frantic shuttle diplomacy and the most liberal applications of flattery did Halley manage finally to extract the concluding volume from the erratic professor. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, who once calculated that he’s grown about 800 billion HeLa cells for his own research, says that restricting HeLa cell use would be disastrous. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z What’s good is that the professors didn’t try to alienate me from the rest of the Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The two professors run their speed-dating nights at the back of the West End Bar on Broadway, across the street from the Columbia campus. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “The doctor, the professor who operated, he said your eye is healed?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I mean, Mom is spending her days at the clinic cracking backs, and Dad is meeting with other teachers and professors to ready a makeshift school, beginning with the younger kids. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They were staring in horror at the professor who, as far as they could see, was quacking away to himself while creeping along the ground in a most peculiar way. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Koppel, who kissed my old professor when he first saw him, now had to squeeze in alongside the bookcase in order to be seen in the camera’s lens. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We found the stairs and ran up to the third floor, bumping into students and professors who gave us strange looks as we passed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She spoke up in class, buoyed by the books she read, thrilled that she could disagree with professors, and get, in return, not a scolding about being disrespectful but an encouraging nod. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At first, Coram could see little but a beautiful complexity, until the professor began to point things out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles as the middle-aged astronomy professor facing the end of civilization...on the night America was spooked. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I wait until he’s out of sight before crossing the street, wondering why the professor seemed so strange, and who he was visiting. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z When she and a group of students and professors went to volunteer for the war, she was told that the army didn’t draft women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He makes his face look very serious, as if he’s a professor. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Lott finally had to tell us that it was best for us to try and take classes from other professors more to be exposed to other ways of teaching graduate material.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The letter reveals nothing other than earnest pedagogical intent, mentions a panel Dimitri and the professor to whom it’s addressed attended some years ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “We are a kind of animal that has evolved for social learning,” says Nicholas A. Christakis, a physician and Yale professor, who is an expert in social networks across time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His report explains that a professor at a Chicago observatory has spotted several gas explosions on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Look, professor, I may never get a chance to go to school again,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the small rectangular box that appeared next to the professor’s biography. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Many of the geologists argued against an evolutionary theory that one of his old Edinburgh professors, Robert Grant, proposed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The man died without a penny, yet his children grew up to graduate from college, to become doctors, professors, teachers, and professionals all. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Block out the little aristocratic professor pacing in front of the hearth and the late hour and the dogs and the shelves brimming with interesting things. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was one thing when someone was telling her stories about some weird old professors, or even her own family members. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Yeah. He’s a college professor. He has to look like that. It’s a rule.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But in the early 1970s I remember hearing professors quietly admit their alarm over various aspects of what was then called the Third World Student Movement. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he sat for an oral exam on radioactivity conducted by Birge and three other professors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The professor was gone, the city was gone, and here she was under the beautiful stars—alone, alive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I’d never met a Mexican-American man who was an English professor. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes—a look somewhere between wild hippie and fatherly professor, except this man’s skin was the color of a lima bean. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My professors came into focus, suddenly and sharply; it was as if before the grant I’d been looking at them through a blurred lens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This friend, Jim Hunter, was an English professor in a small university about two hundred and fifty miles away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z HARRY: Listen to your professors, don’t listen to James, and remember to enjoy yourself. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The lecture is on African American history, and the professor is someone I’ve read about online. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Come back and see your old professor,” Morrie said when I hugged him good-bye. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses, who Blaine once said was the only person at Yale that he trusted completely. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A battle raged between two titans: the professor Booker T. Washington and the brilliant, mercurial, and quarrelsome W. E. B. Du Bois. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They forged on, mostly speaking Mandarin, saving their English for impersonations of certain professors. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was born in 1824 in Belfast, the son of a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical Institution who soon after transferred to Glasgow. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I happened to tell a University of Chicago professor at a cocktail party about the raid as I had seen it, about the book I would write. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z From a professor, she learns what happened: Alice, the administrative assistant, had fallen suddenly by the mailboxes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As “The Trial of the Century” reached its dramatic conclusion, my old professor was sitting on the toilet. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Most schools promised terms appropriate for any new assistant professor of English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the second hour, the trio of professors stopped taking notes and just gawked at Jake as he fired off one correct answer after another. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Seizing a coat lapel in either hand, to make himself look like a professor, Stuart began: “Anybody absent?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The tableau of a little boy engaged in mental combat with a judge, doctor, or college professor some eight or ten times his age was often greeted with mirth and wonder. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She wonders who’s hurt, whether it’s a student or a professor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The jewelry owner who was locked in a vault for fifty years is like the panel on sex with four professors and the recommendation of the candidate with no qualifications. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z None of the professors who had welcomed them to graduate school were around when it came time to take them to the infirmary or to the airport. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s never gotten the professor of the year award. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After the meeting I met an Irish girl who worked for an advertising agency, a girl who did social work, a schoolteacher, and the wife of a prominent university professor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My father is a history professor, the Great and Powerful Expert about the American Revolution. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “Mommy and I had a professor in college called Miss Butt.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He had always been a dancer, my old professor. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sympathetic professors wrote letters; exceptions of various sorts were made in my case. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z An open outcry would reveal that our professor was completely in the dark about what the initials DNA stood for. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes he talked like a linthead and sometimes like a professor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The second was Yale’s complacent refusal to accommodate its sought-after assistant professor’s request for a promotion to associate professor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A professor at National University, whose son is in my class, invited me to me to teach a seminar on how to inspire teens to read. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I glanced across the floor and saw Dr. Roseberry Bokwe, one of the most respected African leaders and scholars of the time, chatting with his brother- in-law and my professor, Z. K. Matthews. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor says he was sure the blanket was part of the cause, and he's all excited because he says he can do tons of research just using those two dates and the two locations. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Wart thought to himself that he did not care for Mr. P. “Lord,” said Merlyn, not paying attention to his nervousness, “I have brought a young professor who would learn to profess.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This is not just a challenging theoretical question giving employment to economics professors, but also one with important policy implications. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These were the kids of black administrators and professors at Princeton, who themselves were a profound minority and like the rest of us tended to gravitate toward the TWC. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At his home, that evening, a dinner was held in my honor, attended by other professors and professional people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He began a lecture about liberal professors, and Mother mixed batter for pancakes, periodically murmuring in agreement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Joy got a job with a computer science professor so he could program over the summer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If Dad were here, he would be fussing about in his fashion professor mode, mixing paints and washing brushes in jars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear physicists spend their coffee breaks at scientific conferences talking about quarks? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to stop you right now,” the professor cut in, holding his hand in the air. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know you were so close to him,” I taunted, recalling all the times Burt had complained about the professor’s narrowness and pushing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Students in a team-taught course save their papers under the name of the professor who assigned it, so I get a dozen email attachments named “pinker.doc.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The professor has just confirmed what Ida told me; now I need to hie myself over to that side of town and find Katherine and Lily. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It's where the professors and the local geniuses and all the rest of the university creeps send their kids. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can I lend you an umbrella?” said the professor. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Now that you are an assistant professor, I didn’t think you would,” said Theresa, feeling among the shoes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of professors, accused of being “Communist sympathizers,” were fired. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The old professor often talked to Senor Saguaro—and to us. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Janae told me that some classes are held in auditoriums like this, and I’ll have to always sit in the front to get the professors’ attention. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Making allowances in the name of helping someone stay in school is what professors do all the time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The professor wipes at his brow with a pocket square before continuing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z My history professors thought nothing of telling me that my search for myth was doomed, that the stories I wanted to tell myself could not be matched to truths. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z |
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