Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minor sports in the University are much like Broadway successes on the road: one will "go big" in a certain town, while another will be a failure--all for no very evident reason. The managers who "book the shows" gradually learn a town's preferences, and send it only the types it has welcomed; but meanwhile the advocates of the other types will keep trying to change the local taste...
...would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle. What reader does not find new zest in the works of James Branch Cabell, after learning that that urbane satir ist does most of his writing at night, is proud of his distinguished ancestry, and boasts a highly protective spouse? Or in those of Joseph Hergesheimer after being told for the first time that he began life as a student of painting, lavished a for tune...
Bertrand Russell, author and philosopher: " I advised the British Independent Labor Party to learn from the Chinese how to be lazy and enjoy life...
...Frequency Amplification", at the first of a series of open meetings to be held by the Wireless Club. The talk, which will be illustrated by apparatus and demonstrations, will be practical and non-technical in character, and is aimed primarily to help men, interested in radio, who wish to learn about radio reception sets incorporating this type of circuit. It is meant to expand, in one particular field, other general lectures on radio given recently by Professor G. W. Pierce '99 at the New Lecture Hall...
...skirmishes with the "Reds"--he was twice wounded--his own visits to "yurtas", where the blood of the last murdered victim had not yet sunk into the ground, his own wanderings by horse, cart, camel, and on foot, Dr. Ossendowski has not forgotten to look about him and learn. The last section of the book, in which he tells of the fabled "King of the World", and sets forth Buddhistic prophecies and miracles, is undoubtedly a more than unique thing. Strangest of all--the passage that causes the Christian reader to gasp as he suddenly and without warning runs...