Word: learnt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monuments," could he have suspected that one of the monuments would be valued no years later at $308,000,000. For in 1802 son Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours began concocting friable messes of gunpowder in a squat stone house on Brandywine Creek, Delaware. Son Eleuthere Irenee had learnt his chemistry from Lavoisier.* clarified, refined, improved his formulae, passed them through to great-great-grandson Lammot du Pont, eighth president of the company...
...took a walk all around the town investigating maters and petted a beautiful black pussey who as soon as I went away would run after me untill I peted her. I saw a sculptor shop. Learnt bible verses. We then played with boats on a pond with the commerce of stones for myself...
...Hutchinson's school days were spent at Gresham's School, Holt, a few miles from the Norfolk coast, and his holidays in Cumberland amongst the lakes. In such ideal surroundings it is hard to conceive where he learnt Socialism, but a Socialist he is; the fact constantly appears in his speeches and conversation. He is always running away on a bicycle or in a Ford to address mass meetings in the Midlands, or to stir up the lazy villagers of Cambridgeshire to take a greater interest in the running of their country...
When the World Series splashed to its rain-streaked, dramatic finish on Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, a handful of distinguished foreigners, with rain spurting in gentle rivers from the brims of their felt hats, left the field and proceeded to their hotels having learnt for the moment enough of how things are done in the U. S. They were in Pittsburgh with exactly the opposite idea-to show the U. S. how certain things are done in Europe. They had come to attend the opening of the Carnegie International Exhibition...
...Technique is a means toward expression. Technique is simply how best to do it. If countless ages of men have done a thing before, and if hundreds of those men have done it supremely well, is it not reasonable to suppose that there is a great deal to be learnt from a study of how those men have done...