Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page pamphlet titled Lest We Regret, Travelers' copy writers drove home the meaning of D. U. to the heavy-footed driver. Energy increases as the square of speed. Thus, if speed is doubled, energy is multiplied four times; if tripled, is multiplied nine times. If 25 miles an hour is the speed of one D. U., 35 is that of two, 50 miles of four, 60 of six and 75 of nine...
...first time in the many years that I have been a reader of TIME I regret the anonymity of your writers. ... It requires an intellect outstandingly brilliant and out standingly self-reliant to be able and daring enough to sum up the lifelong teaching of "America's Greatest Philosopher" [John Dewey] with a statement at the same time devastating and so unobtrusive that most readers will pass it by: "exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher" [TIME...
...extra-curricular aspect was a vital part of the original program, and it must be abandoned with regret. But the transcendent importance of the other two features makes this course an economical one. Wisdom to judge the present comes mainly from knowledge of the past; which is to say that Americans can use their institutions more intelligently if they realize how these originated and developed. On the other hand, learning, which has tended in recent eras to fall into tiny, unrelated pieces, has meaning only when it is a related whole. Thus an American Civilization Plan which still teaches history...
...Heflin, 70 next April, is now at home in Lafayette, Ala., compiling a book of anecdotes. Said he last week: "I, with millions of other peace-loving Americans, deeply regret the death of the Pope...
...With the fall of Barcelona, for years the most poisonous anti-Christian centre in the world, the war in Spain approaches its conclusion. No one save those whose loyalty to Moscow is certain will regret the end of the conflict. . . . Making Barcelona, formerly the centre of anarchism and antiChrist, the capital of a Christian nation will do much to restore sanity to the world...