Word: learns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 1559, direct, businesslike Queen Elizabeth, decided that something should be done to stop the boys of St. Clement Danes choir school from wandering all over the city. The boys must stay within the boundaries of their own parish, said brisk Queen Bess, and they must learn where those boundaries lay in the following manner...
Thanks−congratulations to TIME for saying "Now John drives the dark Lincoln limousine." To learn what make of car Mr. Coolidge used while President and to learn that he bought this car from Uncle Sam, is NEWS. Newspapers delete the name of the car because that would be advertising the car. It is good to know that TIME has the guts to print the NEWS, even if it is a blurb for the manufacturer. No thanks, I don't own a Lincoln−but I wish...
...once newspapers learn that an institution is trying to suppress a story, the chances are nine out of ten that they will give that particular story a much bigger ply than they would have had it been given to the papers when it first broke." The New Student
...student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work," is the opinion of Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia who is strongly in favor of the plan. A Columbia student will be permitted to take one or possibly two such courses and it is thought that they will serve an excellent purpose...
Perhaps a good part of the public is somewhat surprised to learn of all the important privileges attached to the office of Vice President. Holders of this position in recent years have come into fame in considerable measure because of their colorful language and their discovery that "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar." If the present incident indicates the social prerogatives of this second highest honor of our democracy, it also shows that in the land of equal opportunity where any native may aspire to the Presidency, none but the legal spouse of the Vice President...