Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beau Geste. At Marseille, lucky Deserter Doty was met by U. S. correspondents who had learned about the French Foreign Legion from the U.S. cinema Beau Geste (TIME, Sept. 6, 1926). They remembered the tigerish Legion officer, in that film who allots blows & curses to his men. Are such kicks...
The largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany...
It was announced last night by the H. A. A. that arrangements have been made with G. V. Brown, manager of the New Boston Arena, to admit holders of H. A. A. books to the balcony of the Arena for all games of the University sextet except those with Dartmouth...
In an interview in the New York Times, Booth Tarkington rails against the overeducation of college students, and declares that the only fit companion for a young student of his acquaintance is a professor of Greek. This is manifestly unfair both to the highly learned masses who went no more...
The fact which both newspapers ignored for the sake of their editorial arguments for military training and which both must have learned from their University of Wisconsin correspondents at Madison (each is rich enough to hire squads of reporters) is this: instructors at that university do not persuade their students...