Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season. The Sea Woman. The loudest melodrama in some months came in under this title and unwrapped a good deal of sound excitement. On a lonely lighthouse lives a not very young woman and her reluctant ward. The latter longs for the land and love. The latter she has learned from a fisherman along the coast, learned more completely than she expected as we learn promptly in the first act. To shield her fisherman she accuses a Government engineer and the latter gets a bullet in the arm from the enraged keeper...
...expect him to eat his food. Set it before him and make him sit at the table until he eats it all, no matter how long it takes. Start with small amounts of suitable foods and give him as much time as necessary to eat. He will soon learn to eat the amount he really needs. Never allow his refusal of food to make you angry. Perhaps he does not eat because he enjoys seeing you become irritated...
...they were eager, the rowing champion because he was tired of rowing, the members of Parliament because they were tired of riding in trains to visit their constituents and purposed to drive their own planes in the future, the ladies because they were tired of everything-all wanted to learn to fly. The club began with several baby planes. Its steward was sent scurrying to order more...
...gentlemen here Belgium has sent its representative men with power to negotiate. The question before us is of narrow compass. There are but two parties to our negotiations. Politics, local or international, are not involved. We sit here, reasonable men, around a table. Under such conditions we will soon learn each others' viewpoints, determine the true facts governing the situation, and should reach an agreement fair to your country and to ours...
Rashness. Dr. Whitney based much of his address upon recent findings of Drs. J. J. Thompson and R. A. Millikan. The latter, director of the laboratory of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, also spoke: "We must learn to get away from over-assertiveness and dogmatism, whether scientific or theological...