Slide rules are even tugging the heartstrings of a handful of folks who had scarcely learned to count by the time the devices began their precipitous decline.
We scarcely learn about Biker Fox's past, but are invited to laugh at him.
But we scarcely learn how Washington succeeded in unifying delegates at the Constitutional Convention or what the defining achievements were in his presidency (aside from matters of title and protocol).
Hers was a world in which progress, industrialism, economic necessity (the term may be varied but the fact remains) had swept away leisure and starved out beauty, in which men were so poor and their livelihood so hazardous that they had scarcely learnt to think and never learnt to save.
Clara and the baby downstairs in 2-S (her name is Quinn, I've learned) are scarcely aware of irony or bad news yet, but they'll catch up and be O.K. with it very soon.
But I did my research, and eventually I learned about an ancient technique that scarcely anyone uses.
The S.F. music scene (I quickly learned that "Frisco" was a no-no) was scarcely known outside the Bay Area, and neither was the larger cultural phenomenon it drew strength from.
It was the policy of the revolution, to inculcate upon every citzen the obligation of renouncing his habitation, property, and every private concern for the service of his country, and many of us have scarcely yet learned to consider it as less than treason to have acted in a different manner.
Though I felt bad that this encounter might have bruised his feelings, I could scarcely have imparted a sturdier lesson about amorous attraction, a lesson I had learned many times — first you have a little thrill, then a little fun, then a little disappointment, and then come the brain-eating zombies.
I have learned that I was conscious after the bombing, that I spoke to a rescue worker and that both my legs were amputated while I was trapped upside down in the rubble but I scarcely remember this.
I scarcely know where to begin.
