Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come to wield perhaps a more powerful influence than any other Britisher not directly affiliated with a political party. His cartoons touched every possible matter of public interest; and as he lived in a period of fast-occurring and momentous events, to follow his sketches is to learn the history of the times...
...prevalence of Harvard men in the Investment field. Bond selling requires certain very definite characteristics in the way of background, education, and training, most of which most Harvard men may be assumed to possess. The technical requirements at the start are nil; a man entering the field can learn whatever is required of him, and as he progresses, his actual knowledge of investments will increase in direct proportion to the amount of effort he puts into learning his subject. Above all, a certain intelligence, ability to master a subject and the ability to inspire confidence based on knowledge...
Astounding it was to U. S. physicians, patients and therapeutic lamp manufacturers to learn that the British Medical Research Council last week decried the use of light treatments. There are two general kinds of light used in medicine-heat-producing, generated by carbon filaments; and ultraviolet ray (artificial sunlight) producing, generated by a carbon arc, by a mercury arc, or by special filaments lighting through quartz. Undoubtedly such lights have done good. This is particularly so of the ultraviolet light, used to overcome rickets by direct exposure of puny children...
...momentous sentence?because it appeared in direct quotation in every newspaper of the country on the following morning. It was the first time in years that the public has been permitted to learn the actual words of a President?other than such as have appeared in public speeches, official messages and unconfirmed rumors?since the practice of holding official press conferences was begun by President Wilson...
...different had been his lot, he exclaimed. A gipsy boy, he never went to school and never had books to read and learn from. He had no chance, and yet it was not his fault but his misfortune. The change in his life came when he found God. "I am as sure that I found God as I am that I shake hands with you, that the sun is shining; just as certain as a scientist who works out his positive laws...