Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Correspondents learn that, in addition to lunching, the delegates held a secret session in the Bank of France at which they unanimously besought Mr. Young to chairman the second Dawes Committee, on account of the leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more...
...first air exposition that New York has had for almost eight years and 20,000 persons daily endured the active discourtesies of Grand Central Palace Exposition factotums to see the planes. Many a sight-seer bought a plane on the spot. Many another was there just to learn to recognize the different makes...
Freshmen, of course, will learn a more simplified version and will discover the manly art of saying just enough. Upperclassmen will be encouraged to give free rein to the oarsmen and to check them up when frenzy conquers rythm. Although the complete course is not known, it is rumored that a complete day will be devoted to the perfection of making a graceful are when tossed into the water by a winning crew...
...fast," cautioned Senor Sanchez Guerra, "I have not come here to lead a riot but to lead a movement," and he returned to the Captain-General's office. Curtly he was informed that General Girona was surprised to learn of his presence in Valencia, and certainly could have no dealings with...
...divisional examination only as an occasion by the absence of any records of the results. No marks are kept, so that a grade just above the passing line serves the purpose as well as a mark of distinction. Where this is the case, few will take the trouble to learn more than is necessary, and veterans of examinations have a way of knowing how much is necessary...