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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The story of its discovery, as told by Admiral Snow, is a record of a quarter-century's search for truth in regard to the famous battle of the Constitution and the Guerriere. He learned from an old newspaper clipping some years ago that the bell of the Guerriere was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manuscript by Eye-Witness Tells How Old Ironsides Shook the Mighty Deep--Widener Holds Valuable Document | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

¶Anshe Ernes Congregation, Chicago, was to broadcast (through the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ) music, chanting, ram's horning and sermons of its Rosh Hashonah (Jewish New Year's) services this week. ¶The Jewish Tribune, weekly magazine, learned in editorials, popular in text, in its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rosh Hashonah Doings | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

In seeking an undistorted continuation of study from junior high school through college, the proposal advocates the discarding of several preparatory courses. A narrower, more limited field of study in the training school is Mr. Holmes's judgement. This is certainly the reverse of a liberal education. In fact it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANSWERING AN OLD QUESTION | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

While the department of Comparative Literature is too losely organized to act as a whole on such a question, it was learned that all of the courses included in it will probably use the reading periods because of their peculiar adaptibility to the new plan.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Most Non-Scientific Divisions to Adopt Reading Period Plan | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

Last week out of these headquarters issued stacks and stacks of envelopes addressed to alert women Democrats all over the U. S. When each woman Democrat opened her envelope, she learned that what the Democratic Party needs is slogans, mottoes, jingles, limericks, rhymes. They had decided that the way to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Scheme | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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