Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine is becoming a decided disappointment to me, frankly, it does not "stack up" with the other publications of its class that I am taking and I think no additional subscription from me will be forthcoming, at least not until its editors learn to differentiate between "twadle" and matters of real news value...
...them is Corporal Little Ghost, reputedly a grandson of Sitting Bull, Indian chief whose warriors defeated and killed General Custer at Little Big Horn. From his many Western descendants, Sitting Bull would appear to have been as prolific as the Mayflower was capacious. (I Fishermen everywhere were shocked to learn that President Coolidge, on his first fishing expedition in Squaw Creek, had used worm-bait in catching five trout. Flies, they said, were the only proper trout-bait, but the President specifically stated that he had used worms and showed a coffee-can full of wrigglers to prove...
...keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses were browbeaten while 250,000 humans watched Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith pin upon Colonel Lindbergh the state Medal of Honor...
Significance. "Ever since the War, they [European businessmen] have earnestly and wistfully studied . . . American business methods," wrote a New York Times editor last week. "They may now see representatives of that interesting class in the mass. ... It will be an education and a surprise for the Continentals to learn of the extraordinary degree to which we have carried the combination of business with pleasure, or at least business with luncheon." German businessmen have asked Rotarian President Sapp to remain in Europe for a time to get German rotary clubs well organized...
...periods as instituted next year-will have a very definite reaction on the work done in summer vacations. At present the average man feels that reading done independently and without coercion is very fine but it has little to do with his scholastic success in college. He must eventually learn, however, that reading with or without an incentive is seldom quite barren of results. Even in August an afternoon spent looking at a book must leave some impression on the mind, the exact permancy being determined by the book which gives and the mind which receives the impression. Therefore...