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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"General Crowder has written a fine memorandum on this subject [limitation of Philippine sugar imports]. He has also learned that the plans of the General Staff provide that in case of war any attempt to keep a traffic lane open between the Philippines and the U. S. would be promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Letters of Lakin | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Harvard will get its real test Friday night when it plays this same University Club at the Arena. The Crimson will have to face such stars as the Bigelow twins, John Chase, former Crimson captain, and Ted Learned, crack goalie, in this encounter.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FAVORED IN HOCKEY OPENER WITH B. U. TONIGHT | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

Joe Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Thoroughbred | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

With Paris, never his home town, Louis had no sympathy and less patience. Once he made a speech to some learned scholars of Paris' famed Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

It was learned that wild ducks and geese fly about 10,000 miles a season. Long distance champion is the Arctic tern, which wings some 20,000 miles per season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Game Gossip | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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