Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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His other preoccupation is mechanics. In his late 'teens he acquired a Franklin air cooled automobile which soon became his passion. Cheerfully greasy he dismembered it and screwed it together again. Of late years aviation caught his mechanical mind's eye and he learned flying, planning to commute by air...
When hawks fight, that one wins which can tower fastest and highest to strike from above. Having learned that the same is true of fighting airplanes, the War Department has ordered some "Super-Hawks," capable of towering and fighting as high as man ever flew.* The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor...
North Carolinians learned why State Pardon Commissioner Edwin B. Bridges had resigned his post after only eight months tenure. Similar officers in other states already knew the reason. Onetime Pardoner Bridges is a young lawyer of Charlotte, N. C. He has sensibilities. His reason: "I took the job for experience...
From Paris came news which all Germans scanned eagerly. They learned that the Agent General of Reparations, Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, called last week upon Premier Raymond Poincaré of France, and drew from him an admission that the French Government might soon consent to some scaling down of German...
Malcolm Stevenson learned last week that his handicap had been raised by the Polo Association from 8 goals to 10; offered no comment on retirement. He attains parity with Milburn and Hitchcock as the highest rated players in the world.