Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their map case was a short note. It told of the Old Glory's SOS. The message had come just before Tully and Medcalf left; friends feared to shake their nerves on the take-off by telling them. Somewhere out at sea they must open the map case, and learn how somewhere into the tossing water beneath them another ship had tumbled from the air. Whether or not they ever read the note was not known. The Sir John Carling carried no radio. She was not seen by any ship after she left Newfoundland. She did not arrive in London...
...learn with great distress of the accident resulting in the loss of so many gallant officers and men and the sinking of the Warabi...
...first heard about the new electric plow invented by Mr. Roe of Pittsburgh through your magazine [TIME, Aug. 1]. It interested me so much that I was telling a farmer friend about it yesterday. As it happened, my friend had just been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision...
...that Rob Jones has given up swearing (audibly) after bad shots, now that he no longer eats pie á la mode during tournaments, now that he has twice won every major title except the British amateur and established medal-play records unapproached in history, it is interesting to learn that he?...
...thought, the very thought, of a woman on board, Mate Mortimer ground his teeth. A woman was not merely unlucky but against all sea tradition. If Captain Lawry did not know that then he ought to read Jack London and learn something...