acquirement

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During a mid-19th-century boom in the popularity of chess, Scientific American was in mourning because the game “robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements.”

From Washington Post

But with the Schomburg Center's acquirement — the public library research center is located on Malcolm X Boulevard — the uncovered writings will be available to the public for the first time.

From Salon

He laments: “Learn from me…how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world.”

From Scientific American

Who, Taney asked, do we think we are, to question what the Founders—men “high in literary acquirements, high in their sense of honor”—intended?

From The New Yorker

Disease.—Perhaps in the realm of disease more than in any other has an interest in the inheritance of somatic acquirements been manifested.

From Project Gutenberg