Word: unlearn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked me to do anything. I don't think I was arrogant. I didn't have anything to be arrogant about. . . . Maybe I didn't know just how to act in a home with a mother and father and sister. I had about six weeks to unlearn my whole life and learn it all over again." Father Flanagan, who had learned of the matter while in Europe, arrived in Paterson after Peter Christopolus reached Omaha. He tried to get in touch with the Strengs, was unsuccessful. Said he last week: "It is regrettable that Mr. Strengs...
...drives his own Buick fast, once had a bad smash on a slippery road in West Virginia. In 1928 he bravely campaigned for the Brown Derby though it hurt his political standing. In 1930 he visited Russia, returning with the warning that the U. S. had much to unlearn about the Soviet. Early this year he silenced a "favorite son" boom in his own behalf by declaring for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His reward was being made temporary chairman and keynoter of the Chicago convention. Despite his own blotchy record, he flayed the "Hoover-Grundy" tariff act. Most of his speech...
Declared Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, heretofore no Russian recruit: "An American entering Russia must unlearn a good deal. . . . I never saw such optimism. . . . If the stable government now maintained by the Soviet is continued, the U. S. will have to give serious consideration to negotiations looking toward recognition...
...candidates for the Fourth Estate, backed by their Pulitzer diplomas, expect their newspaper training in college to admit them without question to the offices of metropolitan journals. And each year editors find that the vocational journalism their reporters have learned does little more than give them something else to unlearn before they can begin the acquisition of news writing ability...