Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wouldn't put a fellow who wanted to learn to play the violin with a symphony orchestra," he said. "He'd just spell the concert and probably wouldn't get much out of it himself...
...Could a person, making a detailed study in Hollywood learn the fundamentals of picture making in eight or ten weeks?" he was asked...
John H. Hewitt, alias Elmer, Butch, and Oscar, went there "to look up Teddy Conant's signature." Last year President Conant's youngest son created quite a furore when he revealed that the purpose of his visit was "to learn more Knolgege...
...much trouble to investigate beforehand the most important problem of his life; he must learn behindhand by experience. This for Methuselah, but hardly for mortals. In any job this man will get but a worm's eye view of one business, and his hours will be too full even to give much thought to alternative occupations...
...think that any job at all will answer the perplexing question of what life work is best for him is absurd; he might better spend the time reading novels. This is not on idle suggestion, and if he were to sandwich in a few biographies he might learn much more about the world of work, enough at least to stimulate him to further investigation...