Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Of these William Bankhead accounts for 21. When, at his mother's request, he gave up an adolescent desire to go on the stage, spent two years in the State Legislature, got into Congress in 1917, William Bankhead's advice from his father was to learn the rules. He followed it, remained an amiable, well-liked but not particularly influential member of the House until despite a serious illness he was made Majority Leader in 1935. When he succeeded Joe Byrns, William Bankhead laid down his own requirements for a Speaker: "I should say that the most...
Shocked was France to learn that search by State operatives of 450 homes and shops in all parts of the country had netted by this week: 120,000 rifle and pistol cartridges; 500 machine guns; 65 submachine guns; several anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns; 17 sawed-off shotguns and 134 rifles, together with two tons of high explosives. Antique dealers, garage proprietors, members of the nobility and bargemen were among those arrested...
Most members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church, were pleased last week to learn that by next summer they will probably belong to a new church, a plain Methodist Church. With 8,000,000 communicants, 20,000,000 constituents and 29,000 ministers, the new church will be the nation's largest Protestant body. Ratification of the merger of the three churches, proposed three summers ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), requires assent of three-quarters of the conferences of each Methodist branch. Northern Methodists and the Methodist Protestants had ratified...
...that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have long puzzled over Welsh manuscripts of the 12th Century, trying to decipher lines and circles that meant chords to Cambrian harpists. The Welsh apparently invented harmony, structural basis of all modern European music, dressed their tunes in accompaniments when the countrymen...
...more careful reading would have shown. Our editorial reads: ". . . . these girls were last year being forty dollars a month for a forty-two hour week." No one has denied that this was the actual wage, and the girls themselves will corroborate this figure. This Monthly is delighted to learn that in the recent past there has been a weekly increase in salary of $1.71 and a weekly cut if three working hours, The Crimson may feel that this $1.75 now paid to these girls is a living wage; it is the Crimson's right to think so. The Monthly does...