Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been immediately fried in oil or pleasantly stimulated, perhaps, with red hot pincers. Times change, however. Galileo, in an effort to keep his self respect without losing his head, was forced to murmur his truths to himself in a defliant which per; but when the modern student can learn without a quiver that a new universe has been discovered from which light takes a million years to travel to the earth, it is safe to assert that the world is becoming shock-proof...
Julien Bezard: My Class in Composition. A teacher's diary showing how French boys learn to write...
...Life and Adventures of Eric Home (Butler) Written by himself- Seltzer ($3.00). An offshoot of the Young Visiters school of narrative. The artless (though at times somewhat labored) account of the supposedly autobiographical butler in service with many of the "Nobility and Gentry." These latter may quite conceivably learn with pain some of the things that go on behind the traditionally imperturbable butlerian countenance. No Admirable Crichton this, however, to transform them. Rather, he gazes upon them and philosophizes, mildly-but inwardly. Thus, of the nouveaux riches: "They may spend their money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza has done all this for the Metropolitan Opera Company for the past 16 years. Still far from broken, he continues to be liked by his company. So it was not surprising to learn last week that he had signed a contract to retain his directorship for five years more...
...find joy in your work all your life. That is the thing that every young man ought to seek to find out--in what calling, in what profession, in what occupation am I going to find the work which will give me joy all my days? I have learned by observation of my own life--and I have indulged very little in such observations--but I observed some time ago that a large part of the happiness of life for me has come out of the joy in work. See to it, therefore, that you learn in what occupation...