Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover, Prince Ras Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
Through his associations, the farmer is supposed to learn how much to plant so that there will not be a price-shrinking surplus. But most farmers are individualists. Far better than an association do they like a free-for-all, where every man raises as much as he can. Aid in marketing a surplus continues to interest most farmers more than laws of supply & demand...
Water polo as a sport for undergraduates and graduates may be instituted at Harvard if enough men signify their interest in the formation of a team. All men who have had experience in the game or any other swimmers who want to learn it should report to R. C. Muir, the University swimming instructor, at the Big Tree Swimming Pool. Until after mid-years he will give instruction in the sport to anyone reporting between 2 and 6 o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays...
...little shaver is pictured wading through a swamp of flowers, lies the story of a Tyrolean peasant, who, instead of a halo, carried a raven on his shoulder. Hugo Harpf, imagined as a very recent saint, toiled in his village, loved a peasant's daughter, went to Munich to learn how to paint and came home to work miracles. For this he was first killed and then worshipped. In its intention the story is not so much a satire as a critical footnote on the life of Christ. Beyond this it is a picaresque skeleton clothed with the abundant flesh...
...Senate. Had William Randolph Hearst, bold son of a onetime Senator,* tried to make the U. S. Senate his debtor, his newsboy or his strong-arm man? The special committee under Senator Reed of Pennsylvania (TIME, Dec. 19) continued finding out. First of all it examined Publisher Hearst to learn how, when & where he had obtained pseudo-official Mexican documents indicating that $1,215,000 was to have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, as go-betweens (TIME...