Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weed-bed has been broken up and scattered by storms and the ship's wireless has proved useful in enabling the ship to learn of the location of patches of the weed from other vessels in the vicinity...
Gratifying as it is to notice a thorough-going reaction on the part of the student body at Harvard University as regards Professor Baker's resignation and all that this meant for Harvard as a seat of learning and culture, it is more than disheartening to learn that Harvard's President in his several addresses at the alumni clubs of the University has tried to justify and defend the attitude of the Board of Trustees toward the same question; on what grounds, for what reason?--simply because a theatre for young playwrights and authors would be a useless fixture...
...that bad taste is any the less offensive because it is metropolitan taste. To me, urbanity is the ability to offend without being offensive, to startle composure and to deride without ribaldry. The editors of the periodical you forwarded are, I understand, members of a literary clique. They should learn that there is no provincialism so blatant as that of the metropolitan who lacks urbanity. They were quite correct, however, in their original assertion. The New Yorker is not for the old lady in Dubuque...
Recently a young man in Portland, Oregon, under the impression that he too, could learn 'o play in thirty days, purchased what is called a cornet. Being more than commonly considerate, he took the instrument to a vacant lot, and there, behind sheltering bill boards, gave vent to his musical complex. Such was the reward of his virtue, however, that he was taken to the police station as a "suspicious person." The following morning a wise judge praised his thoughtfulness in not practicing where he would disturb the neighbors and sent him back...
...editorials the writer mentioned "Cincinnati" as the home of the typical American yap. Now I live in Cincinnati, and while I must admit that New York and Chicago have their advantages, it seems to me that even Cincinnati might be worth living in for a while, if only to learn how to spell it. Respectfully. A. M. Stern...