I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.

Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.

For a Mandarin speaker, to whom and are separate phonemes, the English distinction is much more obvious than it is to the English speaker who has learned since childhood to ignore it.

For other words ( such as dreamed, leaned, and learned ) the regular forms are somewhat more common.

2: 13 a little more is learned about him, that he followed Peter's example of not eating with Gentiles ; and from 1 Corinthians 9: 6 it may be gathered that he continued to labor as missionary.

Some of the driving research questions in studying how the brain itself processes language include: ( 1 ) To what extent is linguistic knowledge innate or learned ?, ( 2 ) Why is it more difficult for adults to acquire a second-language than it is for infants to acquire their first-language ?, and ( 3 ) How are humans able to understand novel sentences?

In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his Studio, Barks decided to apply.

However Mansfeld, who had learned his profession in Hungary and the Netherlands, often used horses to make his foot troops more mobile, creating what was called an " armée volante " ( French for flying army ).

Although this information can instead be learned by reverse engineering, this is much more difficult with hardware than it is with software.

When Allen and his men landed above St. John and scouted the situation, they learned that a column of 200 or more regulars was approaching.

The German design had considerably more room for development however and the lessons learned led to greatly improved models in World War II.

As Xavier learned more about the religious nuances of the word, he changed to Deusu from the Latin and Portuguese Deus.

Irenaeus ' comparative adjective gnostikeron " more learned ", evidently cannot mean " more Gnostic " as a name.

As Levy described in Chapter 2, " Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems — about the world — from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and more interesting things.

The single was released in 1986, and Marrow learned that " 6 in the Mornin '" was more popular in clubs than its A-side, leading Marrow to rap about Los Angeles gang life, which Marrow described more explicitly than any previous rapper.

This is the situation long faced by many users of English who possess a " non-standard " dialect of English as their birth tongue but have also learned to write ( and perhaps also speak ) a more standard dialect.

By the swing era, big bands were coming to rely more on arranged music: arrangements were either written or learned by ear and memorized — many early jazz performers could not read music.

Keith learned too much about air combat, and air killing, to be risked.

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda and its teaching.

Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.

We have learned a lot -- a dash of hydrochemistry here, a bit about plumbing and pump-priming there.

Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.

We have learned from earthquakes much of what we now know about the earth's interior, for they send waves through the earth which emerge with information about the materials through which they have traveled.

`` If I thought you were serious about going back to school, that you'd learned something from your experiences here and at Hanover -- well, I might consider such an offer.

They had learned, both of them, about Abraham Wharf.

I'd tell him everything I'd learned about Seaton's habits and habitat, and he'd tell me the score on Radic.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

We have learned much about interstellar drives since a hundred years ago ; ;

He had also learned a great deal about Persian customs and traditions from his teacher.

Readers were told that the British authority learned about Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain Belgian royals.

The son of a potter who had moved to Syracuse in about 343 BC, he learned his father's trade, but afterwards entered the army.

Carnegie learned much about management and cost control during these years, and from Scott in particular.

The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.