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It turns out Kaiser Chiefs infant-school anthem Ruby has been overlooked for a Brit award.
Kaiser Chiefs Ricky Wilson: ‘We Are The New Oasis’. Nobhead? 2008
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Even in the infant-school all the elements are to be found which the maturer man later encounters in an intensified degree, in the world.
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But no mother who wished for anything which might be called the _development_ of her child would think of putting it into an infant-school, especially if she lived in the country, amid
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Everybody, from his old landlady, who cared for him like a mother, to the infant-school children, missed Hartley Coleridge.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Dr. Wood alludes to the ignorance of the American medical student, and makes a statement "not founded on the authority of official publication," in which he endeavors to show that from "six to ten per cent." of American medical students have an ignorance of vulgar fractions and rudimentary astronomy that would exclude them from an ordinary infant-school.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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Bathsheba ever since we'd sat in infant-school; and what more natural than to ask after her health, along with the other news?
Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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In 1842 a new building was erected for the normal school for infant-school teachers.
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Fliedner, who was a lover of children, took great interest in both these institutions, and in his school for infant-school teachers prepared deaconesses especially for the duties that are required in teachers of this class.
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Almost contemporary with the mother-house arose the normal school for infant-school teachers.
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Here they went vigorously to work, Mrs. Livingstone with her infant-school, and her husband with all the varied agencies, medical, educational, and pastoral, which his active spirit could bring to bear upon the people.
The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880
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