Word: learnt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve-round match at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Johnny, dressed in faded and battle-worn blue tights, was too clever for the South American, who managed with difficulty to tie two rounds and win one. The verdict favored Johnny, and all critics were agreed that Luis had learnt a valuable lesson...
...feeble efforts of Mr. Ghandi's followers to keep it alive; but the causes of that movement are still operating, and to them can be attributed the latest developments of the Indian situation. Noncoöperation is dead, but Nationalism lives and is the stronger for having learnt the lessons of Mr. Ghandi's failure. The Nationalist movement. . . . is part of the great awakening of Asia which is destined one day to baffle and alarm a war-weakened Europe...
...British explanation is interesting. "In England free education came a great deal later than compulsory education. Parents had learnt to appreciate the education that they paid for, and compulsion was hardly necessary. When free education came the position was not effected. The reverse process took place in the States. Education was free before it became compulsory, and parents never learnt to value what they paid for." And, further, it is argued that the Government Board of Education, coordinating and centralizing laws of attendance, supplies a factor altogether lacking in the United States...
...picture not a problem; nevertheless it sets a question. However strange it may seem to us, the institution of marriage was based on the essential inferiority of women. It was a rational and intelligible basis, and on it marriage remained established. But now we have learnt that women are equal to men, can the came stability be secured...
...uses all the marks of punctuation, learnt in some English course, no doubt, where, however, he can have learnt little else, for he puts a question mark opposite the word "objective" as used in criticism...