Word: learnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially, perhaps, old humanistic liberal man-who is due either for a mutation of species or extinction. Says Koestler: "Once we hoped for Utopia; now, in a chastened mood, we can at best hope for a reprieve; pray for time and play for time; for had the dinosaur learnt the art of prayer, the only sensible petition for him would have been to go down on his scaly knees and beg, 'Lord, give me another chance...
...England's "Old Catholics" and a vital pawn in the game of Anglo-Spanish diplomacy. When she mounted the throne at 37, she was a "small and thin.'' unattractive woman, old for her age and with "a loud and deep voice" in which she had "never learnt to lie," but only, as she said, "to be plain with you." She had one fixed intention: to restore the old religion. But she swore "graciously not to compel or constrain" the consciences of those who had accepted...
...girl who worked as a sales girl reported she learnt "humility", and that shop girls are more than one "who leaves you stranded in a fitting room while you miss your luncheon date...
...have been so grateful in coming across your newspaper address as we learnt is the best and most serviceable newspaper you have in your town at present. We shall be extremely grateful and joyful it you will be so kind in publishing this our few lines in the front page of your daily or weekly journal as written below...