Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew up in Los Angeles, where he was enough of an athlete to run up an impressive blight of injuries, including ankles ruined at squash and softball. He decided by the seventh grade that he wanted to become a sports cartoonist, went directly from high school in 1920 to learn lettering in a sign shop ("Women's Philippine Underwear, 79?"), got his first newspaper job in 1923 doing illustrations for Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (now the Herald & Express...
Naturalization laws prodded the nation's early foreign-speaking immigrants to learn English, but the 700,000 Puerto Ricans who now form 10% of New York City's population were U.S. citizens when they arrived, and about half of them continue to speak nothing but Spanish. Last week, by the early dawning (6:307 a.m.) light of TV, some of them were learning their new home's native tongue. The program: WRCA-TV's Aqui se Habla Ingles (English Spoken Here...
...chemistry, rates the title of doctor only on the strength of honorary degrees collected from fawning provincial universities. Sampurnanand dabbles in ayurveda himself, often prescribing ayurvedic remedies for friends. Four years ago his government set up the State Ayurvedic College in Lucknow, dedicated to the proposition that students should learn both the ayurvedic and Western medical systems...
...peace-or-bomb world would be a simpler place to live in, says he, but various Communist aggressions since the Korean war prove that it is not that kind of world. And once his much loved Army has added its potential to the strength of bombers, "we must learn to think of the earth as a tactical entity and of space as the next great strategic challenge...
...about winning today's game," said the Dodger manager, still running on half a tank of sporting cliches. "You do the best you can, and it's useless to worry about it. It's not so nice to lose as to win, but you have to learn to take...