Word: learned
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...other parts of the world we learn that there are not hundreds but many millions of people who will go without their Christmas dinners; most of them will probably starve. Reports from central and southeastern Europe and from China all tell the same tale...
...spring, members of the society who have not as yet qualified as pilots, will be taken up for short "hops" and given instruction. The society hopes that a number of lower classmen will join the society and learn to fly so that they can carry on the active work of the organization after the present aviators have graduated from the University...
...start with, let me say that in our classes the same methods of attack and defense are taught that Jack Dempsey, Jack Britton, Benny Leonard, Johnny Kilbane and other champions had to learn in the more rugged school of Give and Take when they were youngsters breaking in. The same left jab, the same right cross, the same block and the same parry are a part of our system, but they are learned and practiced by the majority, not with the thought of achieving any championship honors, but with the idea of attaining genuine exercise. When one considers the footwork...
...sympathizers have so long--carried on their operations in America that it would appear as if, after all, the term "Greater Ireland" were justly applicable to this country. Both the American and British governments have so far been surprisingly tolerant towards those groups of persons who have yet to learn that there is a great difference between friendly sympathy and organized campaigning. But that patience is slowly but surely becoming exhausted; neither the British nor the Americans can be expected to remain passive much longer...
Harvard has not won an Intercollegiate Track Meet since 1909. We hear the same old story about track which we used to hear about football, yet in the 90's Harvard had Intercollegiate championship teams, and so far as I have been able to learn, we did not then get any number of "prep school stars...