Word: lessons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wave of the attack actually captured the British mobilization warehouse at the edge of the town, held it for three hours against all the machinery of modern warfare. Only at the stone fortress of Peshawar were the tribesmen turned. Commented the London Times: "One other lesson deserves the careful attention of the Imperial General Staff. Whatever may be the effect of bombing airplanes in open countries like Irak where vast stretches of ground are open as a cricket pitch, it would seem that punitive action from the air has lost its terrors to the Pathan. Against mobile and intelligent opposition...
...life and never watched any animals with intentions of sketching it. And to the people who ask I say that I get my models through my tail bone, and from the many connections it got with the cantle-board of my saddle." He claims never to have had a lesson, except for a few months' instruction late in his career at the University of California...
...special committee headed by Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, began to investigate the menace, if any, to the stability of the U. S. Government of the revolutionary doctrines favored by this 0.13% of the nation's electorate. The first week's hearings began with a lesson in the generalities of Communism and concluded with an adroit plea from the American Federation of Labor for stronger Unionism to combat U. S. S. R. theories. No "Reds" were yet hunted by name and deed...
...made public. Flag-waving imperialists have looked the report over and remain cold, "self-determination for India is still a matter of the dim future". Emotional natives lament, "most un-sympathetic". Chicago and greater America cast a superior glance London-wards, "won't John Bull ever learn a lesson from the days...
This is a letter of gratitude. I have been amusing myself this winter by taking a correspondence course in Versification. After a time there came a lesson on tumbling alliterative verse. This is a very peculiar form and requires a subject rather out of the ordinary. It rolls along in voluminous strides, and I was at my wit's end for something to write about. It seems to me that it was in February while reading your magazine that I chanced upon a little paragraph telling about an elephant's stampede in India. Here I thought...