Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blessing they are boys," said Walter Nip, when interviewed yesterday about the Hasty Pudding chorus which he is coaching. "No girls would cooperate as those boys do. The girls want the end position and a good-sized raise every time they learn a new step...
...Louis Silvers, when he asked me to come out and help him, warned me that they might seem awkward. All men choruses, even in good shows, don't have the graces of the girls. But these boys have. They learn in a minute, too. And above all, they work. Most girls would want $150 for the work those boys do. The boys are tickled to death to be able to make the chorus...
What will be the joy then in many simple hearts to learn that the flapping oilskins on the damp boardwalks of Cambridge are also coming to be adorned with hearts, arrows, and an intermingling of significant initials. If only their owners could express that spirit of budding manhood by clapping their hands, nudging one another, and snickering a bit, what fun there would be. There is something about the whole practice so in keeping with the stern traditions that have raised Harvard above the class of giggling schoolgirls that it seems well at this time to offer a gentle word...
...Story. By dogged, self-determined ways, pale young Martin Arrowsmith made himself a doctor. What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know...
...authorities to continue to preserve strict secrecy regarding further investigation of the new Giza tomb, but I learn today from a source which I have every reason to consider trustworthy that one of the expert Egyptologists working at Saqqarah descended into the shaft and after reading the inscription expressed the opinion that it was the tomb of Sneferuw himself...