Word: learns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry from the school into the business world professional standards, a genuine respect for the intellectual and moral requirements of modern business and a continuing thirst and capacity for knowledge. These are the subalterns whom experience fashions into commanders. These are the men who have made themselves fit to learn and improve the art and science of business management...
While five pharmaceutical associations met at Rapid City, S. Dak., last fortnight and tried to dodge the ergot controversy raised by Pharmacologist Henry Hurd Rusby and Drug-Importer Howard W. Ambruster (TIME, April 15), members were vexed to learn that Eastern newspapers had scare-headed an ordinary Federal food-&-drug seizure of 500 cans of ether in Boston, 400 in Providence, R. I. The seizures were similar to those which food-&-drug men constantly make. Ether is made from alcohol and sulphuric acid. Carelessly made it may contain harmful peroxides and aldehydes. Carefully made it may deteriorate with...
...Lexington: "If you're going to get anywhere politically, you've got to learn not to accept payment for your vote...
...first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem for Kansas City. He weighed protests from Louisianans against the land compensations provided under flood control...
Serenely sensational, the Ceske Slovo went on to warn colleagues of Dr. Edouard Benes in the Czechoslovak Cabinet that they must not expect to learn, even from him, all the details of the secret treaty...