Word: learner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every jingle-learner knows what little boys are made of, but science is not so sure about penicillin. Hundreds of U.S. and British scientists have searched for years, trying to find out. They still don't know for certain. But the U.S.-British findings, summarized in Science, gave hope of two important possibilities: 1) penicillin's active ingredient might be synthesized to make the drug much more plentiful; 2) the ingredient might be altered to make the drug more effective...
Every Real Teacher Knows. The biggest cheer of the day, from a gallery of St. John's undergrads, went to President Barr. Said he: "Believe me, sir, this is not a matter of mere sentimentality. Every real teacher knows the tremendous working advantage of surroundings that incite the learner to renewed effort." He called up the ghosts of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase and Thomas Stone. "These men," he cried, "not only signed the Declaration of Independence. They exerted themselves . . . for the people they had helped free by founding . . . St. John's and by choosing its present...
...Doubter. In Lambertville, N.J., nervous Motorist Batista Linco explained he had been driving on 224 consecutive learner's permits over the past 25 years because he had flunked his first driver's test, had been unsure of himself ever since, doubted he could learn all the rules...
Varsity 150-pound: Vincent R. Bailey '40, stroke; Howard N. Turner, Jr. '40, 7; Samuel F. Peirce '40, 6; S. Chandler Crocker '41, 5; Peter H. Hazard '41, 4; Calvin H. Elliott, Jr, '40, 3; Peter J. Kooniger '41, 2; Henry R. Shepley, Jr. '41, bow; Edward B. Learner '40, coxawain...
...Where he was first photographed with a white man, the Rev. F. D. Learner of the China Inland Mission...