Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Corbett, citizen of France, son of an English banker, stood in the iron-railed prisoner's dock at Draguignan in Southern France last week, facing a judge and a jury of hard-faced farmers. Hesitant witnesses told how the accused had learned that his elderly French mother was suffering...
In Guatemala City, Pilot Richardson learned more details. Only a few hours of rumbling prefaced the eruption. Three hundred to 400 persons were reported killed. Eight important coffee plantations were destroyed. Red hot lava had buried the village of El Patrocinio deeper than Pompeii.*
In Chicago one Benjamin Friedman was shot in the mouth while pursuing a gunman who had held him up. He spat out three teeth, chased on, wondered where the bullet had gone. At a hospital he learned he had swallowed it.
Holy Cross feared at first that their livestock would not be allowed on the hallowed soil of the Stadium, but when it was learned that the Army mule had paid a visit there, their fears were set at rest.
"The Bible has come to be regarded, not as the traditional basis of all religious belief, but as the literature of a long religious development. If, we do not feel concerned about miracles today, it is because we have learned to see the spiritual meaning of life not in physical...