Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will doubtless be of interest to J. B. Scott to learn that this report finds that down to March 1919, the Y. M. C. A. made free distribution of canteen supplies to a total of 13,613,027.64 francs, of writing material to the amount of 9,072,493.30 francs, and of free newspapers to the amount of 3,092,944.17 francs, or a total of 25,778,465.11 francs, which at the average rate of exchange for the months given, equals...
...committees to investigate different aspects of the situation. These smaller groups made painstaking studies of the several general types of international problems and reported on them to the League, explaining why they were matters which could be codified. Their reports were sent to the governments of the world to learn their reactions. This process was repeated until the issues concerned became definitely stated...
Yesterday at the Harvard Union, under the auspices of the governing board of that organization, a luncheon, attended by a number of graduates and undergraduates, was held in an effort to learn the student opinion on the question of the disposal of the Union under the House Plan before the report of the governing board on this matter is submitted to the Corporation. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the governing board, described the main alternatives, assuming that under the House Plan Freshmen will live in the Yard, as follows: "Either an annex to the Union will be built...
...deal with the problem of general unemployment, not with those local and sporadic instances of unemployment which result from such causes as changes in production methods or the geographical shifting of industries. Business booms, crises, and depressions are not entirely a thing of the past, and, unless we learn how to control business activities better than has been done heretofore, the problem of general unemployment will arise again acutely as it did in 1921, 1908, and other periods of business depression. Heretofore resort has been had to soup kitchens, special commissions and conferences, and much talk, which continued until...
This reductio ad absurdum of a current foible which has given rise even in shrewd New England to vast consignments of "Mayflower" furniture may cause a smile. But the Levantine inhabitants of Charles Street will still learn to find their appreciation of the marvelous powers of the father of their new country in the value with which he endowed the chairs in which he once found rest...