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April 2003: Teenager shoots dead a head-teacher at a Pennsylvania school, and then kills himself
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Miss Nash, head-teacher at Mrs. Goddard's, had written out at least three hundred; and Harriet, who had taken the first hint of it from her, hoped, with Miss Woodhouse's help, to get a great many more.
Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001
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Here the county clerk half rose, but the head-teacher held him with his disciplining eye, and he sat down again.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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It was something to see that most of the glasses went away almost untasted, but the head-teacher found it best to keep a steady eye upon him and save him from doing more than mutter his opinions.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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_Snow-Drift_, the head-teacher and a dozen other gentlemen, all in strict evening -- if still Alaskian -- toilettes.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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"What the head-teacher says is believable, but so Koga-san does not wish to go."
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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I was absolutely indifferent as how my blunders in the class room affected the students, or how much further they affected the principal or the head-teacher.
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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That was rather humiliating for a head-teacher to come over and see his subordinate, but it was better than to call me over to him.
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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As a head-teacher, however, he is more serious than
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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'A learned man, a moollah [23] or head-teacher and expounder of the
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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