Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon it was learned that Liberal Lloyd George was demanding three things as the price of his supporting either of the big parties:
A Metropolitan audition was the result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La...
In France 40,000 people die each year from cancer, he learned.* Almost half of them kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is...
But in a way all this and other evidence is a real testimony to the power of Harvard's proudest boast its indifference. Not until the duty of the hour is finished will the apostles of case and balance discard their lone for a little light entertainment. The police blotters...
It was also learned that representatives from Princeton and Cornell, the two colleges which combine to meet the Englishmen later in the month, have been invited by the Harvard Athletic Association to attend this meet. It is expected that Keene Fitzpatrick, Princeton track coach, and Romeyn Berry and Jack Moakley...