Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After four years in a position to learn the facts I am going out of office with the most hearty contempt not only for the morals and the intentions but also for the minds of the gang politicians of Pennsylvania. . . . Any machine must include a body of the lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest...
...houses will not have to sleep in haystacks," he was the founding spirit of Mooseheart-famed colony, 37 miles west of Chicago, where boys and girls are 'prepared for life" and graduated at 18. A thousand orphans (together with about 100 widowed mothers and their children) live there; learn to build houses and roads, to farm, to tinker with machinery; labor in the fields and shops; to buy equipment; go forth into the world. Nothing is closer to the heart of Mr. Davis than Mooseheart. He has a home there, and is always on hand for the colony...
From the journal of opinion we can learn that American imperialism is trampling roughshod over the feelings of a nation. From another we can learn that the American marines are angels of law and order sent to protect lives and properties of our citizens and those of France, England and Italy...
...Milwaukee delegates could learn a lesson from the National Student Federation of America which is devoting its attention to college educational problems about which the students know more than anyone else except the professional educators and faculty members. In that field student opinion is worth both expressing and acting upon...
...suggestion for theological seminaries is this: let young gospelers spend a year learning, as young medics learn, in hospitals, asylums and almshouses, to practice the application of their beliefs upon the sick and troubled.* For medical schools: courses in professional ethics. Besides the lessons learned from the silent examples of fine doctors, let there be instruction in the inconsistencies of the Hippocratic oath, in the unwritten laws on fees, contract practice, birth control, state medicine, abortion, advertising, competition...