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Word: avicenna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Istanbul until he was 16. He went to Phillips Academy and soon began picking up degrees - from Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia (M.A.) in English, from the University of Madrid (D. en L. ) in Medieval Spanish and Arabic, from Harvard (Ph.D.) for a thesis on the Arabian philosopher Avicenna. In 1940 he moved to the University of Denver as an assistant professor. This changed everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Treasury of Song | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

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