Word: learned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a number of years in my present occupation and district, I am surprised to learn what my principal task is. And I deny it most emphatically. Multiply my individual efforts by those of thousands from Maine to California and I'll match our production record with that of the representatives of any other recognized old-line company. . . . And I am proud to have produced every year a very satisfactory number of contracts well up in four and five figures-dollars not cents...
Sheed & Ward, mindful of their Catholic public, withdrew Voltaire from British and U. S. circulation. A French Catholic firm, which had ready a translation of the book, held up publication. Meanwhile, Author Noyes sought to learn why the Holy Office thought Voltaire worthy of condemnation. He was informed that he would be told only if he would write the Holy Office a letter which, by implication, would acknowledge his errors. Unwilling to make any such blind recantation, Author Noyes did what Englishmen often do when highly irritated. He appealed to the London Times, which last fortnight printed the documents...
Students will usher food through every step from field to table, learn to sweep floors, write advertisements, calculate profit & loss. They will study also the science of food: what makes bread rise, what makes beer. When they go to school each morning, students will first take a shower, then don white uniforms. The food they carve, bake and cook will be dished up to them and their teachers for lunch in the cafeteria...
...Italian parents, for a trip to Italy. It packs them aboard drip at New York, pays all their expenses. When they arrive in Italy, the children are sent to camps and clapped into the black-shirted uniform of the Balilla, Fascist youth organization. They march in military drills, learn to give the Fascist salute and to sing the praises of Mussolini. After touring Italian cities, where they are banqueted and reviewed by Government officials, back they go to the U. S., devout Fascists all, to awe and convert their neighbors...
...children how to use their minds by teaching them how to use their hands. Chief subjects in the curriculum will be spinning, weaving, agriculture, sugar-making; chief instrument of education, the takli, a small spindle on which the student can spin yarn as he walks, talks, prays. As they learn these trades, India's school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation's curse: "We are strangers in our own home. The vocabulary of our mother tongue is so pathetic...