Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Manhattan, had her discomfiting brush with Le Gallienne, later enrolled in John Murray Anderson's dramatic school. When a chance came to play in George Cukor's stock production of Broadway in Rochester, Ruthie sent her off with a blessing and the admonition to learn both her own part and that of the leading lady, because "the lead is going to break...
...principal business was to approve the budget and to learn what the committee has to do in planning the Class Day program...
...sailor needs to be told of the pleasure that could be derived from a sail now and then during the spring term. There are hundreds of students who have sailed before and would like to do some more of it. There are hundreds more who would like to learn, for a knowledge of sailing is one of the first requisites in obtaining many of the better summer jobs which the Student Employment Office yearly apportions...
Instead of a formal curriculum, Roslyn's schools have an activities program. Thus its schoolchildren build boats or Indian tepees, and in so doing learn incidentally to read & write, learn something about history, science, art. When Roslyn's boys make nut bread, Superintendent Wegner explained, they not only enjoy a creative activity but learn to add, subtract & multiply...
...pages are better. The emotional, shrinking, 15-year-old Laurent Pasquier discovers that his father is keeping a woman, calls on her to ask that she give up the old man. When he is tricked by both the mistress and his father, Laurent denounces him, is dumfounded to learn that everybody knows about this affair and many others besides. The oldest boy, Joseph, escapes the family by turning himself into a money-making machine; the dull and stupid Ferdinand marries a girl as secretive as himself; Daughter Cécile becomes a concert pianist, admired by Debussy, loved...