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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until the present no distinction other than academic has been made between Engineering and College undergraduates. All the traditions of Harvard rise in protest against such a division, a separation on the basis of vocation rather than of natural affinities. At present, as far as can be learned, the majority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE LOOKING IN | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

CRIMSON editorial competitions have a habit of paying pretty good dividends. Frankly, I learned a good sight more about English composition during my own CRIMSON competition than in a year's course in advanced composition.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDITORIAL BOARD CONTEST UNUSUAL | 11/29/1929 | See Source »

It was learned from Stillman Infirmary that, Harding spent a comfortable day and was rapidly improving. His condition is critical and will remain so for a day or two but a rapid recovery is forecast.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARDING "GETTING ALONG FINE," SAYS DR. RICHARDS | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

In Warsaw, Poland, Moses Feingold, 70, beggar, learned that his brother John, who had emigrated to the U. S., whom he had not seen for 65 years, had bequeathed him $1,000,000. Beggar Feingold went insane.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Grocer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Scheme No. 2 involved William T. Kemper, for some years Federal Receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Schemes | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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