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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Is motherhood an act of God? This question, involving all the profundities of metaphysics, faith and physiology might well give pause to anyone, however learned. The answer YES would surely affront countless atheists, agnostics. The answer NO would just as surely anger multitudes of the pious. Yet several men were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Act of God? | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Among the Socialistic and notorious Harvard students circulates the rumour that on the day of the Army game the Stadium will see a demonstration against war, the Army, and West Point. Whether the demonstration will be vocal or pictorial or consist merely of the presence of the notorious students in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Distribution Problem Faces Socialists With the Hoosegow in Sight--Anti-Army Rally Planned for Day of Game is Rumor | 10/3/1929 | See Source »

On the seventh birthday of His Majesty Mihai I last fall, Rumanian officials announced that their boy king would not be educated by tutors as are most Royal men-children but would go to school. Democratic, but not too democratic, the school would be composed of 36 small boys specially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Schoolmates | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

* The 900,000 shares outstanding are listed on the New York Curb, sell around $540 compared to the 1929 high of 631, low of 530. While this is comparatively high (20 times earnings) for a closely held company with a thin market, Singer shareholders have learned not to sell, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Red S | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

¶ At his Historical Village at Dearborn, Mich., last week, Henry Ford and his son and grandsons witnessed the reopening of the school in which Henry Ford studied in 1870. Sitting once more beside Edsel Alexander Ruddiman, his oldtime desk-mate, who is now a learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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