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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be Freshmen already absorbed in scientific careers, in medicine, philosophy and the prospect of business. There are bound to be others filled with the importance of their own self-sufficiency resenting the thought of culture and broader horizons. As the Freshman wanders about the historic buildings inside and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRATWICK WARNS AGAINST DANGERS OF TRANSITION | 9/22/1927 | See Source »

Advice is of a fragile nature in that its value increases in inverse proportion to the amount offered the advisee. During this intimate interval of three days there will be much good counsel spread abroad; the College will belong to the Freshmen for this fleeting period and it is to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIRST YEAR | 9/22/1927 | See Source »

¶The Congress will open?barring a special session?on the first Monday in December. Then is the time the President will have to say things, in his formal message to the Legislators. Correspondents at Rapid City were allowed last week to peer into the President's mind and see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Baldwin Locomotive Works is capitalized for 75 million dollars and controlled by 200,000 shares of common stock and 200,000 shares of preferred stock. During the past eight months the prices of the common shares have been the amazement of the stock markets. They have sold for as low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Baldwin Directors | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Samuel Vauclain learned to love locomotives, the way other men love horses, as an apprentice in an Altoona (Pa.) roundhouse which his father superintended. He learned to build them at the Baldwin works in Philadelphia, rising in 36 years from foreman to president. He has never given up his workingman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Baldwin Directors | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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