Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow, uncertain way. The man who chooses to learn a branch of business by picking it up bit by bit as he goes along, finds the years slip by faster than he thought and sometimes his progress not as sure as he had anticipated. For all the "bits of knowledge" he sought may not have come...
...candidates for the News Department will be expected to gather and write up in suitable form all news pertaining to the University, and in addition to obtain interviews and special articles from prominent men, both on college and on outside subjects. They will also have a chance to learn in an indirect way something of the mechanical end of publishing a newspaper--that is, proofreading, linotyping, make-up and press work. No previous journalistic training on preparatory or high school publications is necessary...
...team. The picturesque is gone; there is nothing of the blind king of Bohemia charging into battle among his knight, or the stand of the English archers against wave after wave of the French chivalry. All of this is unessential from the modernist point of view. The student will learn what the issue was, fought between a handful of men, and what the result. But the players in the drama are non-existent and it is the players who make the story...
...encouraging to learn that the best inventive minds are going to solve the few remaining elements of the problem of how to get around without the use of legs. What our grandchildren are going to do with their legs we are not sure. Certainly they will be an encumbrance, and it will take more than two generations of evolution to dispense with them. Perhaps they will all cover them up and pretend they have none, as women used to do. --The Portland Oregonian...
Meanwhile, it would be a great advance toward international understanding if we were to widen our acquaintance with French, which must be for most people of English speech, the second language, even if Latin becomes an auxiliary tongue and if Donnay and his countrymen were to learn to speak and write English as well as Chevrillen, the nephew of the Taine, who with Donnay represented the French Academy at the Moliere celebration in America. --New York Times...