Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British and the Russians again began barter talks last week, Europe was still waiting to learn the answer to the riddle of how much bartering Tovarish Stalin was prepared to do with Führer Hitler. Commodity chiefly dealt in so far was talk...
...believed to be acting not only for Turkey but also as "honest broker" for Rumania in the touchy question of Bessarabia, the rich province which Rumania seized from Russia in 1918. Last week, after King Carol had received full particulars of what Ambassador Stoica had been able to learn from the Turkish Foreign Minister, Bucharest bigwigs gloomed and the New York Times's correspondent observed that "the news Stoica brought from Ankara is not good...
Nobody can learn to be a good citizen by studying a textbook. But textbooks have something to do with it. And the quality of U. S. school textbooks depends to a considerable degree on an earnest group of 3,000-members of the National Council for the Social Studies. They are the people who write most of the history for school children, devise courses of study in history, civics, economics, geography, sociology. They take their jobs and themselves seriously. Distressed but not daunted by evidence that, in spite of their textbooks (and the field investigations which they prescribe for students...
Until we demonstrate our ability to solve our own moral issues, others cannot learn from...
...slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action to learn what the public never learns: what artists think of painting. Each year he employs his knowledge to guess the winner before the judges arrive. This year he picked U. S. Painter Alexander Brook's Georgia Jungle, a Negro family against a drab landscape of rain-washed fields and shanties...