Word: learnedness
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In these rooms, hung with wreaths and watercolors, we learned to add and subtract with translucent jewels. When we got to multiplication, we were crowned knights of the three-times table by a tap on each shoulder with a wooden sword.
7:56 a.m.—An officer was sent to Harkness commons after receiving a report of a suspicious person climbing through a window. After a brief investigation, the officer learned that the suspect was an employee who had forgotten a key.
Kramnik thinks that the day when computers rule is further away. "I believe that we humans still have some years yet before we cannot beat the computers," he said. "But this scientific experiment was very interesting and I was satisfied with my play, which was at a very decent level...
It didn’t matter that my companion was a new missionary who burst into tears constantly and said missionary work was too hard. In another life, I might have told her to stop blubbering and get to work, or else politely ignored her while seeing to my own...
There are a dozen other lessons that I’m sure the Crimson has already learned, but the bottom line is that it is now time to focus on the Ivy season, where Harvard already has a 2-0 record.