Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traveler's tale: in a Tonkinese sweatshop swollen-eyed children were making "real French lace." On the wall hung a picture of Rockefeller Center. Much puzzled was the factory owner to learn that Mr. Rockefeller did not live alone in the Center, that there were other inmates. At last he comprehended: "Oh, you mean Monsieur Rockefeller's concubines...
...policy of the coaches has been to spread the coaching as thin as effectiveness will permit. A change in the system would not increase our effectiveness. The report states "Players who never had . . . any instruction will, with one or two afternoons in these expert hands, learn more than they ever believed to exist in these sports...
...United States must learn her lesson," he said. He pointed out the widespread movement for the restoration of Czechoslovakia, of which Eduard Benes, former president of the republic who spoke in Boston Wednesday night, is the leader...
Beneath the placid security of America's little-red-school-houses, a disease is festering which threatens to undermine public education. Americans boast of their youth, their open minds, their opportunities to learn and think for themselves. But the facts behind these boasts ring false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...
Since developing from a painfully shy, homely gosling and an inhibited, inferior-feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...