Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stark purpose of the Mellon Institute has been, since its origin in 1911, the hiring out of skilled chemists, physicists and engineers to industrialists who want to learn how 1) to cheapen their manufacturing costs, 2) to improve the attractiveness of their goods in quality, appearance or price, 3) to utilize waste products, 4) to invent new things...
Until war becomes inescapable, or the Dictators turn and rend each other, let democrats of good will learn "how not to behave in a crisis of representative government . . . remembering how much it is in the interest of every democracy that every other democracy be strong and prosperous enough to maintain its existing form of government. . . . Even sentimental manifestations of solidarity count...
...London biologist who tried to learn why birds lay more eggs if kept awake after dark reported last week in the current U. S. issue of Nature that noise and jostling as well as light are sex stimulants. If Professor William Rowan's reasoning can be extended to human conduct it may provide a commentary on jamming in glaring, blaring night clubs, amusement parks, subways and country fairs. It may also explain why the filthy pigeons of Manhattan, London and Paris, and the noisy starlings of Washington are highly prolific...
...Manhattan's public schools are taught, among other things, that honesty is the best policy, that Kipling's It is a great poem with a practical moral message. But, as Jerome Weidman says, "It isn't what you're taught; it's what you learn." Jerome Weidman went to an East Side public school, thought his classmates "a pretty decent bunch." Meeting them again ten years later, he wondered "what had turned the kids I'd played with into these sharp little wise guys . . . what had happened to Kipling...
...Harvard, always the institution for supreme but unradical effort, will go even further and train further fathers, or present fathers, to put up with their children as well as to be put out by their wives. Since diplomacy ought to begin at home, it is proper that students should learn to keep the family peace; a Harvard man ought to be able to digest Aristotle and watch the baby with knowing eyes at the same time. Though Vassar may be pardoned for needing to learn about men, it seems doubtful whether those same men can be forgiven for coming...