Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ostriches do not hide their heads to shield their bodies. That is an old fable, that learned Dr. Noyes surely knows. And for him to use the fable to belittle anti-evolutionists is foul logic. It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness...
Comrade* Otto Schmidt, 37, learned editor of the Soviet Encyclopaedia (in six volumes), long prominent as Director of the State Book Publishing Monopoly, was announced by Moscow journals, last week, as the new Soviet Ambassador to Italy.
Friends of the Signora Rachele Mussolini were glad to believe, last week, a pleasant story illustrative of her undoubted goodness of heart. It is told that, prior to the birth of the bambino Romano Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 10), she learned how intolerable was the lot of some 600 antiFascists then...
Social workers should include fiction in their homework. Novelists know more about life and are better observers than the serious "workers." So said Miss Lorine Pruette, writer, psychologist, at the meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies-17 scientific bodies specializing in history, economics, sociology.
Some two thousand learned men assembled in Washington, discussed the family, advertising, religion, voting, marketing, business-at various sessions, many held simultaneously; listened to President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale, explain that "the only way to get low railroad rates is to attract new capital"; heard Professor Edwin Walter...