Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived in Brazil for a while and now he and his wife regularly attend meetings of the Brazilian Club. Foreign students make up a small percentage of the clubs. They stimulate conversation when the tendency is to lapse back into English but they presumably come to this country to learn about cultures other than their own. For this reason, the Center makes no effort to keep them isolated...
...office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when boats upset on rapids. White men do not never learn...
...about Eliot's poetry. He shows in detail how Eliot mixes pretentious eloquence and street slang, ancient myths and snatches of borrowed verse to portray an age of "social fright." As Frankenberg traces Eliot's poetic development from weary irony to religious faith, the reader does learn something about the moods and mechanics of modern poetry...
...best interests of Harvard, it must also stand responsible for what it voluntarily permits organizations to do on their own. Not only does this make the functions of the Dean's Office impracticably complex, it also is an intolerable limitation on the rights of students, who can only learn to hear responsibilities if they are given the opportunity to deal with complex problems on their own. For the Dean's Office to handle these problems instead of the students cuts down tremendously the educational value of undergraduate activities...
...recognizing Germany's importance in the "cold war," the U.S. and England must learn what the French know: it is terribly dangerous to strengthen Germany without knowing how that strength will be used. This consideration and no other must be first guide for future policy...