Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last autumn his broker advised him to buy some common shares of Hiram Walker, Inc. To Mr. Dyer's delight, the stock went up to 93⅞. He held on. Then the shares slid down to 66. Not until then did Mr. Dyer learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association...
...Himself": 'We'd like to tell the boy where he gets off but we doubt if it would serve any good purpose. . . . We would like ... to prepare him for the inevitable day when his popularity will have turned to unpopularity. . . . People with warts on their faces learn to bear their crosses bravely. People who become popular heroes should do the same...
...consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin was the Grand Repudiator. He repudiated everything. He repudiated God, King, Country, morals, treaties, debts...
According to A. W. Samborski '25, director of intramural athletics, the game is easy to learn. It consists of four ten-minute quarters and is played on a field of the same size as a regular gridiron...
Great pleasure it doubtless was for Henry H. Timken of Canton, Ohio (with money) and Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo. (with theory), who have built at Cleveland a great spherical tank to treat various diseases by means of compressed gases (TIME, June 4, 1927), to learn last week that the Harvard Medical School will experiment on the same lines. Harvard is installing a steel pressure cylinder 35 ft. long, 8 ft. in diameter, in which investigators can change air pressure from 60 Ibs. per sq. in. to the legerity at the top of Mt. Everest...