Word: learned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt submits his 1939-40 budget to Congress next month, U. S. taxpayers will learn what he has in mind for Rearmament. Meantime, it be came apparent last week that Rearmament talk has been liberally larded with balder dash...
...Once you have the fundamentals you can go on to learn the high speed turns like the Christians. When you know the snow-plow, or double stem, and the snow-plow turn, and know them well, you can go on any trail in New England...
...around the mountain to a shipping point. Lacking capital, William Schmidt decided to tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper his tools. But he learned how. Last week the tunnel was finished - 2,000 ft. through solid rock. William Schmidt expected at last to make some money from his claims...
...reason for most accidents is that too many people go too fast when they can't really ski." he said. "They haven't learned the principles of stemming which is the basis of all skiing. If you don't learn that, you're sunk...
There is in every university a department of education where men, already through the mill, strive to learn methods of imparting their knowledge to those who do not have it, but there is no institution or department I know of designed for letting students learn how and why they learn...