Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stationed in the trig military centre of Andover, Hampshire, are some of His Majesty's most gallant officers and whole regiments of British Tommies who have a cocky, engaging eye for women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker...
Mr. Taft, as President, had had the Smithsonian, a quasi-Federal institution, under his authority. As a learned gentleman he wished it well. So, believing that the Institution would get handsome royalties, he subscribed.
Because the French Federation of Feminine Sports denied her application for an amateur racing license on the grounds she wore trousers and used language learned in the army camps of a martial grandfather, Madame Violette Morris of Paris, Olympic discus thrower and all-around athlete, sued the Federation for 100...
The Story. Joan was a landlubber- for the first eleven months of her life. After that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes...
Frank Shaughnessy, who introduced the fundamental principles of the lateral pass to the Harvard football team several years ago, is an eleventh hour addition to the staff of coaches which is to help Arnold Horween '21 during the spring practice session, it was learned yesterday from W. J. Bingham '16...