Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon recently decided that air traffic from Canada, Mexico, the West Indies and elsewhere had become so heavy that customs men must be assigned to inspect the incoming planes. Otherwise smuggling on a large scale threatened (TIME, Jan. 21). Businessmen learned his intention and...
The Secretary of the Eugenics Education Society went on to outline the history of birth control. "Measures to prevent pregnancy are probably as old as man," she said, "but most of the early formulas were magical and of no real utility. In France contraception on a large scale has existed...
First of U. S. learned societies, also Franklin-founded, was the Junto (1727). As the Junto was the ancestor of the Useful Knowledge group, each one of the present society's 436 members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple...
Died. Silvester Hendershot, 82, ''Wild Man of Borneo," for 20 years with the Ringling circus; in the county poorhouse at Platteville, Wis. Once the town dude, he let his wavy hair grow until it reached his waist and practiced making faces until he got a circus job. Barnum...
F. A. Clark '29, captain of the University crew and polo team, and star tackle on the University eleven, will play the part of the Grand Duke in the Russian Skating Carnival which will take place in the Boston Arena at 8.15 o'clock Wednesday, evening, it was learned yesterday...