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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventions, and especially social science theories do not need this precaution. As most of the scientific theories in the field of the social sciences are critical in regard to the totalitarian theory and practice a dissipation of such sound theories among the Totalitarianists can only be beneficial. They may learn some common sense in this way. For this reason I would rather welcome and invite all the Totalitarianists to listen to to read, and to study the sound social science theories as much as they can. P. A. Sorokin...
...heavy (average: 24 Ibs.), healthy animals perform tricks, follow a scent, retrieve pheasants and ducks with the speed of a prize cocker spaniel. As playful as "Saki's" Laura, who turned into an otter to plague a friend's husband, they are quick to learn, eager to please...
...measure. Nor is it possible to require suppressors on all razors, for such regimentation is obviously impossible. Better to suppress the shavers themselves. Careful consideration, however, leads but to one conclusion; owners of electric razors must to all costs read their daily radio programs with great care. Let them learn when Paderewski, Artie Shaw, Bob Benchley, Bea Wain, Information Please, and other necessities of life are due; ten let them rap the daily harvest accordingly...
...When I was in Boston in 1925, I caught pneumonia, and while I was resting, under doctor's orders, Johnny Green, now a popular song writer and then a student at Harvard, used to come with some of his friends and play for me. I wanted to learn how to play the saxophone, but I never got further than the first three notes of 'God Save the King...
...recent mild attack for a course on marriage at Harvard seems to me to expose one of the weaknesses of contemporary college education: students seem unable to known how to learn something if there is no course on the subject. If one has any deep desire to get a well-grounded view of marriage he could get reading recommendations from a tutor in Sociology or a Sociology concentrator. There are a few recent books which discuss the subject as would be done in an undergraduate course and two or three of these are adequate...