“The Investigators” Report on 1923 Auto Theft Ring
Macy Anderson, Brady Kraft, Alex Pickering, and Zovia Waters researched an auto theft gang that operated in Kinsley in 1923 as part of the “Oceans of Possibilities” summer reading program.
📣 word of the week 📣
Ultracrepidarian
Pronunciation: ul-truh-krep-ih-DAIR-ee-uhn
Part of speech: noun
Meaning:
A person who gives opinions beyond their knowledge or expertise.
Example sentence:
“He became an ultracrepidarian the moment he started lecturing the surgeon on how to perform the operation.”
Origin:
From Latin ultra (“beyond”) + crepida (“sandal”). The word comes from a story about a cobbler who criticized a painting beyond the sandal depicted in it — and was told to stick to what he knew.