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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The presence of this learned doctor might be of service within the walls of other universities than Colgate. Who has been so lucky as never to have taken an examination in New Lecture Hall at a time when a riveting-machine, the noise-maker de-luxe and par excellence of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VOICE OF THE CITY | 11/22/1927 | See Source »

Another profound fact Professor Compton discovered. Atoms are made up of a nucleus with a positive charge of electricity and one or more electrons with negative charges. The electrons (they are all the same size no matter what the element) revolve around their nucleus in a symmetrical pattern. Hydrogen, lightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Prizes | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

About 45% of men and women who studied modern languages in college have read no French since graduation; 57% have read no German; and 49% have read no Spanish. This the U. S. Bureau of Education learned last week from 20,000 questionnaires sent out on the subject. Apparently that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unused Languages | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Again silent Banker Stillman speaks. In England, he learned that Mr. Morgan was living alone. So he paid a call one hot June morning. "Morgan asked, 'What brought you here to see me, Stillman?' I answered, 'Oh, I thought you might be lonely.' Whereat Morgan jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Rich Men | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

It becomes gradually clearer that the fact that her attentions are unwelcome will not check the course of social proselytizing upon which Russia has embarked. There is rather every indication that her propaganda plans are expanding. She has learned, without needing Chicago in the office of tutor, that the pen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COURSE OF EMPIRE | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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