Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spends even that time in a small district in a country whose language he can speak and mingles with all classes of people, he will return with considerable information about that particular district and the attitude of its people toward European problems which most directly concern them. He may learn less about Europe as a Continent than if he had remained at home, installed himself in the editorial rooms of some important journal, and diligently read the exchanges...
...secret society which worshipped smallpox as a fetish. The members spread the disease as part of their rites, making it impossible for the health officials of Nigeria to stamp out the plague. Dr. Shapara was initiated into the society and took part in its secret ritual in order to learn how to combat it. With this knowledge the Government of the colony was able to abolish the clan and to control smallpox...
Some weeks past the country was astonished to learn that a bid of $1,051,000,000 had been made for the whole U. S. Government Merchant Marine. It was at first suspected that the bidder, John W. Slack of Silver Creek, N. Y., was acting for Henry Ford. The bid was obviously fictitious and was not seriously considered in Washington. Mr. Slack's name, however, as well as the name of his native town of Silver Creek, N. Y., received instant and widespread publicity...
Today is the Senior's from the sounding of the first bugle. The chapel for once is his alone; the program at Sanders Theatre has been chosen by himself and the audience are his guests. At the Tree he will learn the inner secrets of his classmates, he will pay his patronizing respects to the Yard, and take the place of honor at the rear in the march to Soldiers Field. In the Stadium it will be his turn to show his paces before his elders of '93 and '98 and '08 and '13 and all the other reunited classes...
...came a report of his remarks: " I am bold to say that not one American in ten thousand has any idea of the order and generally good conditions prevailing here. . . . The Russian leaders strike me as intelligent, courageous and sincere. . . . But there is one thing these people have to learn . . . that they cannot expect American cooperation until they regain American confidence. . . Optimistic as my comments may seem to many people at home, that should not be taken to mean that I am less of an individualist than before or less a believer in the superiority of American methods...