Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Lady is going to learn the long side stroke, too. At present there is nothing fancy about her swimming...
...Buffalo, member of the Banking and Currency Committee of the House, is living at Cornell University, taking a course in Economics. Said he last week: "This idea that a man can't learn anything after he is 40 is bunk." His professor reported that he was an "industrious student...
...Israel came buying. Soon there was a modest grocery store. Eli, turned carpenter, could pore over his Scriptures late evenings and during the long strikes, still tracking down the far-to-seek revelation of his God. The Lord blessed such piety with a solemn little son, Reuben, content to, learn his catechisms and caress Miriam, his kosher white...
...Lord Randolph Churchill, had written finis to his political career in 1886 when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he suddenly made good his threat to resign, ostensibly because he also would not agree to the shipbuilding demands of the Admiralty. And who should be in a better position to learn the lesson which Lord Randolph neglected than his father's biographer, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Louis Nazaire was born on a farm near Quebec, won a prize at the University of Montreal, went abroad to be ordained. He studied Hebrew in Rome, went to Innsbruck to learn polity from the Jesuits, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In Canada he carried on a Holy War against modernism, denounced jazz, dancing, said that cinemas offered "serious dangers, if not approximate occasions, of mortal sin," forbade the clandestine sale of liquors...