Word: unlearning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Declared Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, heretofore no Russian recruit: "An American entering Russia must unlearn a good deal. . . . I never saw such optimism. . . . If the stable government now maintained by the Soviet is continued, the U. S. will have to give serious consideration to negotiations looking toward recognition...
...candidates for the Fourth Estate, backed by their Pulitzer diplomas, expect their newspaper training in college to admit them without question to the offices of metropolitan journals. And each year editors find that the vocational journalism their reporters have learned does little more than give them something else to unlearn before they can begin the acquisition of news writing ability...