Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mere ability. A willingness to sweep the floor, if such is necessary, the ability to go night after night without sleep, and above all patience, all are requisites to success. Why, I could make every one of my costumes right now if I had to, and I did not learn that art after I had advanced, but when I was struggling along with a few lines in some small part...
...same man went aboard the U. S. S. Washington when she was sunk in carrying out the disarmament agreement, and sat in a chair or her deck to learn first-hand what would happen when a 2000-pound bomb was exploded along-side...
Turing to chapter 2, or rather lecture 2, on "Muscles and How They Move," we learn a lot of things which we ought to know; this statement, in fact, being true of the whole book. Are you aware, for example, that muscular activity is effected by chemical reaction; that the efficiency of our muscles is 25 per cent something better that that of a steam engine; that a frog's muscle can lift one thousand times its won weight? Have you a clear conception of what causes the "lubb" and the "dup" of the heart beat? All these question open...
...knowledge of the art of teaching and of musical technique that few, if any, in this country possess," she stated. "So many of the American masters try to teach those under their tutelage by inspiring them, that they often fail to strike the true essence of the art. Artists learn through teaching; not, through inspiration...
...appropriately, this book on "Old Boston Taverns" issued by Butterfield's Bookshop on Bromfield street, has come to our attention. From its many illustrations and anecdotes, you can learn of long forgotten Red Lions, Greyhounds, Cromwell's Heads, and Green Dragons of Boston. A map, too, marks their sites. But do not try to seek them out. For with the recent demolition of the Sun Tavern and the Three Mariners the last of Boston's old taverns have gone. Now their place is taken by Waldorf Lunches, Chain cigar shops, and five-and-ten cent stores. And the taverns...