Word: learne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Lewis Stimson, pillar of the New York Bar, was startled one day in 1919 to learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed...
...retirement of prime ministers has nothing to do with the position of omnipotent Pole Pilsudski. Ex-Prime Minister Switalski and parliamentary leaders waited hat in hand in the Pilsudski antechamber last week to learn who he thought should be the next prime minister...
...pure aero-dynamic research. Mr. Loening is president and chief engineer of his new concern. He can spend its money on research as he sees, fit. He intends specifically to continue work on his small mono-wheel amphibian and in general to make planes faster, lighter, easier to learn to fly in. He admitted that he might attempt the design of a Schneider Cup racer. He said he would accept research work for any firm engaged in air craft manufacture. With his strong governmental connections, he hoped for contracts from that quarter...
Confused and annoyed was "Herex" to learn next day that should dangerous Badman Maggio return to Sicily, it would be in a horizontal position. He had been murdered two months before. "Herex" itself had played up his death story...
...ferment which goes on in the world around him, and theatens to involve him as employer or employee, taxlevyer or taxpayer in our time. This course will not introduce him to the manifestations of these doctrines now current in Harbin or in Gastonia, but it will enable him to learn something of the ideas held by anarchists, social...