Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spread of the Anglo-Saxon culture and civilization in the hither most parts of the globe. Wherever the talkies go, a new interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...
...this time the Engineering School is studying the foregoing phenomena. We are attempting to learn more of the electrical properties of the papers, oils, and of these electric discharges. To do this, we have already developed a precision high-voltage electric bridge which is capable of measuring very minute amounts of power at extremely high voltages, with very great precision. By means of the bridge, we are determining the electric properties of oils and papers at different temperatures and frequencies, and under different conditions of impregnation. Also, we are investigating the electrical characterisics of the electric discharges which take place...
...Although dwelling in the midst of constant hardships, and often unable to get enough food, the natives are remarkably carefree and good natured. But they seem to learn the white man's vices more readily than his virtues. They have developed such a dangerous craving for liquor that there is a prohibition against selling it to them. In fact, about the only way in which civilization has helped them is that the Belgium government has wiped out the ancient bloody tribal wars which once roared through the land...
Tomorrow, scattered groups of these students will visit spots of interest in the University and other parts of Cambridge which are of historical significance, with the view of carrying out the expressed purpose of their tour, "to see, learn, and make friends...
Bowing beneath the ceremony and pomp of state receptions, and the beneficent smile of official welcome, a corps of students, comprising 150 members of the Young Australia League, winds its way over the country "to see, to learn, and to make friends." The arduous moments at attention while the official representative presents the appropriate flag with the appropriate word, and the informal back slapping of local Rotarians may tend to obscure the professed view of the young adventurers...