Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main things that scientists hope to learn from lay observations are the exact borders of the totality belt and the times of the arriving of the total shadow and its departure, to the nearest second. These will help to improve knowledge as to the exact path of the moon...
...page 30 of your issue of Dec. 29 you state that "Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy." I was surprised to learn that Mr. Edison had been such a precocious infant. It would not have been so startling had you merely said he started life as a barefoot boy, but a newsboy?that is too much...
...alert as the man in the higher league. Most ball players must play for serveral years in the minors before they can find a permanent, job in one of the major leagues. This is not true so much in the case of college men, because they can learn quicker and they usually remamber what they learn...
...outside world will gradually have to learn that the British Empire is both a league of free and independent nations and an individualistic unit...
...students of the day are morons. The word "dumbbell"² was also used. Over this estimate, Prof. Charles Gray Shaw, of New York University, mused skeptically: "As a matter of fact," said he, "the students have more avidity for knowledge than their teachers can boast. . . . If they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy...