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Word: rote (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made his debut in Budapest as Romeo, was for ten years a matinee idol. Because of political troubles he left Hungary in 1921, went to Manhattan where he produced, directed and acted in his native tongue. His first English part, in The Red Poppy in 1925, he learned by rote without knowing what the words meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...action all takes place in twenty-four hours in the Austrian Tyrol, with most of it transpiring in the Rote Hirsh or Reed Deer Inn presided over by a handsome young man. To the Hotel, on her holiday, comes an English school teacher whose life has been atrofied by a lifetime of teaching. The romance between the two lasts only for a day and a night; but during that time there comes for the girl an emotional awakening, a balcony scene taken right from "Romeo and Juliet", tragedy in the discovery of her lover's status as a husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospects | 3/9/1934 | See Source »

...that a student is not a vessel into which refined and clarified wisdom may be poured. Rather, a great deal of refining and clarifying must be done in the student's own mind. We have discovered that education is not passive but active; that a lesson learned by rote is a lesson forgot. Methods of education of the older generation were undesirable, not only because they were passive, but also because they proved themselves impracticable with the advent of mass education. Lectures grew more formal, great numbers of text books were written from the lectures, and teachers of younger grades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rexford Tugwell, Brain Trust Head, Declares Teaching by Lectures Futile | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...nearby cage was Editor Werner Hirsch of the Communist Rote Fahne (daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prayers & Atrocities | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...room between acts. They jokingly gave her schillings and she bought brandy to treat them all. Several months later she was asked to sing her "English" songs at Vienna's famed Pavilion. She bought phonograph records of "Mean to Me" and "Annabelle Lee," learned to sing them by rote-to the amusement of two U. S. vandevillians who had joined the Pavilion troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tourists | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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