Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probable outcome: coal export prices would stay the same; the U.S. would make up Germany's dollar loss. Possible outcome: the three powers would learn that the tutelage of Germany required foresight and cohesion, that the job could never be done by high commissioners pulled this way and that by narrow considerations of advantage to their nations. If that lesson was not learned, the only gainer from the Bonn experiment would be the absent Russian General Chuikov...
Instead of velvet or calico, the current Wellesleyite sometimes wears bluejeans, and often a man's shirt. In class, with a bandanna about her head, she sometimes looks a bit like a glamorized peasant woman trying to learn English...
...York State has conjured up a monster of a system, which can work wonders on its own. If by some chance this system is found constitutional, New Yorkers should speak softly to their kids and tell them there are lessons it were better not to learn...
Spain's stooped and shriveled Juan March has come a long way since the days of his penniless youth when he earned his first pesetas by smuggling tobacco. He did not learn to read or write until his late 40s, but he had a flair for figures. He multiplied his first stake into a fortune (estimated at $100 million to $200 million), gained mastery over scores of Spain's chief industries and banks, and helped finance Franco's rebellion...
...pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does not object to pressagents trumpeting his praises. Recently, when Jack Warner ordered a publicity blackout on Wald, ostensibly to cut down demands on his prize producer's valuable time, Wald put up a fight and got the order reversed...