Word: relearning
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...alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...
Dick Martin, converted end who had to relearn the duties of a blocking back, a task he had left behind him in his Freshman year, will be the brains of the Munger backfield, barking out Penn's signals...
...France realization came too late to save the Third Republic and democracy. Bewildered by what had happened to them, the French people needed time to relearn the lessons they had forgotten. For the present the most that could be salvaged was the nucleus of the French nation, and even this was in doubt. To try to save as much as they could, by whatever means they could, was the self-appointed task of the self-appointed leaders of what was left of France...
Fremstad's voice showed occasional wear & tear, but when she left the Metropolitan in 1914 her star was high. Manager Giulo Gatti-Casazza invited her to return on her own terms if she would only relearn all her Wagner roles in English, on the mere chance that subscribers might be willing to accept great music if it was not sung in German. Fremstad refused. When the Wagner operas were reinstated after the War, her health was broken and since then she has been much too smart to attempt a feeble, worn-out comeback...
...Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German, a language which was hard...