Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your country," the New Nikita replied without a trace of rancor: "Don't be so sure. We have better ones; we have the same kind-we even have worse. I don't say that all you have is bad and all we have is good. We can learn from...
...acute diarrhea stage, as much as four gallons may be lost in a single day. Measuring the victim's need for fluids and body salts usually requires costly and complex electronic gadgets, but Namru-2 medics adapted an inexpensive Rockefeller Institute technique, found that they could learn what they needed by putting a few drops of blood into solutions of copper sulfate ($1.50 per lb.). Pouring in fluids intravenously but giving nothing by mouth, Namru-2 doctors saw their patients recover. For the medically poor areas the Namru-2 success dramatized the fact that cholera, if promptly diagnosed...
Pupils of the future may learn their spelling by machine, study foreign languages by oral-aural laboratory methods and attend lecture-type courses if experiments and demonstrations conducted by the Graduate School of Education and local suburban schools prove successful. The school systems of Lexington, Concord, and Newton are serving as the proving grounds for an eight-year series of innovations in new methods of elementary and secondary school teaching...
...avoid the "twin terrors of the pulpit" the minister must learn to combine what seems to be an obsolete past with the criteria of the present, Miller explained. Only then can he expect to find the point of his work again and be worthy of its challenge...
...William Bruhn, 59, was elected president of Valspar Corp. (paints, varnishes) following the surprise resignation of Leslie B. Hartnett. Born in Kiel, Germany, Bruhn worked for German chemical firms before coming to the U.S. in 1926. To learn English, he worked as a vitamin-pill salesman, joined Valspar in 1929, became Chicago manager in 1933, was Western sales manager when he was picked for the presidency...