Word: learned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychologists tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...
...sometimes my duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret could learn a lot from these pioneer women. Snuff dippers don't talk much. . . so they do considerably more thinking. Smoke is the ghost of tobacco. Chewing tobacco is its body, but snuff is the soul of nicotine . . . the mark of men with hair on their chests and women who raise breast-fed babies that...
These Britons want to learn to fly, for they want to beat Adolf Hitler, and they respect the air power he can call up. But Britons encounter two insurmountable difficulties in their learning: the sun shines over Great Britain only one hour in every three; the island is too small and crowded for extended training flights...
From Another World is Louis Untermeyer's autobiography at 53. Among other things that readers may be surprised to learn is that for 22 years Poetry's great middleman engaged in a prosperous Manhattan jewelry business. A new generation will scarcely recall that he was also on the staff of the old socialist Masses, which the Post Office Department prosecuted twice in 1918 for opposing U. S. entry into World...
...Three men last week boarded the American Clipper-Ernest J. Swift, Wayne C. Taylor, James T. Nicholson-delegates of the American Red Cross going to Geneva to consult with the League of Red Cross Societies, to learn the plight of the hungry and naked children...