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...those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing for himself directly; it is natural that he approach a new idea in a slow, roundabout fashion, appraising and rationalizing as he goes...
...travels west (by a politically straight but geographically roundabout route to the American Legion Convention at Los Angeles), New York's watchful little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia carried two watches: one running on New York time, the other on the railroad...
Last week Pan American started survey nights for a regular service from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, last remaining zig in a zigzag line of connecting air routes up from the southernmost capital of the Western Hemisphere (Buenos Aires). The survey plane, a 15-passenger Sikorsky S-43, followed a roundabout route circling out over the ocean, not because she might not have flown over Canada but because Pan American would rather fly over water than land...
Just how powerful a group will cross the Mason and Dixon line for the Stadium invasion is hard to say, since they have no opponents in common with Harvard. By the few roundabout comparisons that can be made, they appear to be definitely weaker than the Crimson, but equally definitely not the set-up Virginia was last year. Davidson lost to V.M.I. 0-7, and the Army beat V.M.I. 20-7 without looking very superior at any time. A more impressive comparison starts with their 2-6 defeat at the hands of North Carolina State, a team which later defeated...
...When he got up, his one idea was to get far, far away. Sea-travel seemed to soothe him; he began to enjoy himself once more. But he was in no hurry to get home. And when he did start back it was on a slow boat, by the roundabout and little-traveled route of Hawaii to Panama...