Word: learn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freddie is to visit the institute daily for about a month, learning to balance his weight first on one leg, then on the other-vastly more difficult for a child who has no arms to steady himself. Only after that can he learn to walk. In six months Freddie will return to Dr. Kessler for adjustments. Then the doctor will try to decide how to start on the still more forbidding problem of fitting Freddie with arms...
Bach: Preludes and Fugues 1-8, The Well-Tempered Clavier (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord; Victor, 12 sides 45 r.p.m.). Bach composed this cornerstone of contemporary contrapuntal music "for the use and profit of young musicians anxious to learn, and as a pastime for others already expert in the art." Here the first eight (the rest are to come) are masterfully set forth by the foremost living expert. Recording: excellent...
...theory is that when a person sleeps, his subconscious is still open to suggestion and can therefore learn. To prove it, sleep-learning promoters, including Inventor Sherover, have been out collecting endorsements. Alexander (Victory Through Air Power) de Seversky declares that a sleep machine helped cure his Russian accent. Rudy Vallee is using one to learn lines and lyrics. One housewife solemnly reported that, by placing a machine under her husband's pillow, she had taught him to like salad...
Although Farquar Shussboomer, a noted skimeister once claimed that you can't learn to ski in your living room, his arguments were disputed three weeks ago by the winner of the Askawan Mountain Open who stated that he had practiced skiing for six years without ever leaving his house. Considerable research has been carried on since this amazing idea was brought forth, and although results of this study are not yet complete, there is strong evidence that drawing room skiing is much more difficult than the outdoor version...
...from Moscow Imperial University, and practiced medicine in Palestine from 1923 to 1939. His only other employment has been a job as editor of Scripta Universitatis, a Palestinian magazine subsidized by his father. His knowledge of many sciences is self-taught. Says Dr. Velikovsky: "I still need learning myself. One lifetime is not enough to learn all that must be known." His book is causing as much advance excitement as if it had been co-authored by Einstein and Toynbee...