Word: learn
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...scholar who in sincerity and knowledge criticizes or dissents from some well-established institution, idea or practice . . . is as much entitled to that dissent as his fellow who defends what this scholar condemns. This is one of the hardest lessons for public opinion in a democracy to learn. The persecuting instinct is so deep and so widespread and the passion for uniformity and conformity is so strong that many a missile will continue to be leveled at the devoted head of any scholar who dissents from a prevailing or a popular judgment." And to quote the 1927 Butler once more...
...back-platform appearances across New Mexico the candidate began to learn to use the microphone. He talked of the New Deal's "drunken orgy of spending"; promised "honest jobs for honest work in honest industry"; and always, everywhere, blasted the Chicago "draft," declaring again & again "I am not an indispensable...
Back at his hotel, the Walrus talked to Adolf Hitler on the telephone. Next day he saw II Duce again, paid him a third visit before winding up his four-day mission and leaving for Berlin, where Don Ramón Serrano Suñer was still waiting to learn what Spain must do to earn her place in Hitler's brave new world...
Although the program of the Chapter will not be worked out in detail until after the organizational meeting on Friday, present plans call for voluntary drills at which students will have an opportunity to learn the rudiments of military training...
...strive toward. "I do not regard the democratic way of life as the supreme end of man," said he, "but I regard it as the best means of realizing that supreme end. For that reason I believe that it is of the utmost importance that science and religion should learn to live together not in mere toleration, but in active cooperation, that through these supporting attitudes of religion and science and through the discipline which each requires, men may be enabled to meet the requirements and to enjoy the fruits of democratic faith...