Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Michael Karolyi, first President of Hungary, for three years barred from this country because of his socialistic tendencies, arrived on the liner Cristobal Colon, en route from Mexico to Spain. He was astounded to learn that a technicality of the immigration laws allowed him 60 hours ashore. "Another of those quaint American paradoxes," said he. "I had expected to be chained to the Statue of Liberty...
Doubtless, the President, a man of much sly humor, was pleased with the country's surprise. He knew that as people began to learn about his mysterious friend it would gradually dawn on them how unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase...
...while this hurt China's and Japan's silk trade. Japan now makes some rayon herself. But rayon has taught U. S. women and men to desire more real silk. This is also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop a grain of irritant into an oyster's shell. A kind of hard felon develops in the oyster. It is a cultured pearl...
Helpers. Dentists again complained of lack of trained laboratory technicians, office assistants, hygienists; urged women to learn those semi-professions; urged schools to provide courses; damned hastily, imperfectly educated mechanical dentists...
...January Joe Sleet wrote to Nellie Wallace: "Dear I am so proud and happy to know that you are a Baptist too. What do you know, I am one of the youngest deacons in our Church? I don't think there is any harm for a deacon to learn to love some one and I do hope you will allow that some one to be you." Nellie Wallace replied that there was a spark of love aglow in her heart...