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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The first two months after entering were given to strict training in military lines and in the customs of West Point. We drilled, we heard lectures, we had unofficial talks by those over us, we asked questions, and gradually we learned. We were learning to take it and like it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life and Trials of Plebe Set Forth In Story by Cadet Editor of Pointer | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

Here, the instructors hand out a long lesson and the Plebe must teach himself, for when he gets to class he is expected more to recite and less to be instructed. More than three-fourths of classroom work is recitation. This requires a new method of study. That is what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life and Trials of Plebe Set Forth In Story by Cadet Editor of Pointer | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

Benjamin Franklin Rice Bassett '25 of Flushing. Long Island, has been elected to the post of treasurer of the Philips Brooks House Committee, it was learned yesterday. Bassett will succeed W.J. Bingham '16, who has held the position for the last four years.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASSETT IS NAMED NEW TREASURER OF P.B.H. COMMITTEE | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

The Criminal Code. Martin Flavin is both lawyer and playwright. (Children of the Moon). Perhaps by intention he has shaped his new drama in 13 scenes, for it is the tale of a luckless boy who obeyed the moral laws but was manacled, body and spirit, by the statutes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Which brings us to the real cause of the condition about which Mr. Taft is so bitter. In the last quarter of a century, long after Mr. Taft was weaned from his alma mater, the great bulk of college graduates have found their livelihood not in the so-called learned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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