Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fish. A drizzly rain fell over New York harbor at dusk one day last month. A trim little 30-foot cabin sportabout nosed out of the Kill van Kull, turned north across the Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A...
At a late hour last night it was learned that the negative team won at New Haven on the same question.
Excavations which have been made in the quadrangles of several of the Freshman Halls will soon be filled with trees, it was learned yesterday from the Maintenance Department of the University.
It was also learned that vines will be grown on the walls of all the Freshman dormitories in the near future.
Front pages the next day streamed with the news. The wires rushed the story around the world. Jenny Lind, Galli-Curci, Marion Talley ... the man in the street learned a new name. Overnight the 19-year-old girl became a national institution.