Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning M. Briand said that the Havas Agency had misunderstood him, added that of course his telephone would have been answered if it had rung. In a bristling statement from which it appeared that somebody was lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier...
George David Birkhoff '05, professor of Mathematics, will represent Harvard at the inauguration of R. M. Hutchins, former dean of the Yale Law School, as president of the University of Chicago on Tuesday, November 19. The event is expected to mark one of the greatest gatherings of learned men in...
Campaigning. "I have probably heard The Sidewalks of New York one million times, all over the Atlantic seaboard, through the South, the Middle West and in Butte, Montana. ... I spoke at Oklahoma City on religious tolerance. Listeners in on the radio were particularly disturbed because of the noises in the...
At ten, he ran away from Columbus, Ohio, hovered about racetracks, sold papers, learned how to bum. Then he was converted, went to a seminary in Northfield, Mass. Prepared for the ministry, he was on his way to Philadelphia when he saw the Great Herrmann, master magician, and followed him...
Recently Tutankhamen, "handsomest of the Pharaohs," has enjoyed a glory, almost a fad, that is far more than his due. The wondrous relics found in his tomb far outshine the history of his political achievements. Mile. Tabouis, learned, impassioned, recites that history, conjures up its sociological, scientific and commercial background...