Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amos Alonzo Stagg, University of Chicago coach, had a birthday, learned the significance of numbers. There are 11 men on a football team; 44 years ago he first donned moleskins at Yale; he was 66 last week.
The Translator. The translator who can be accurate and yet idiomatic is both craftsman and artist. Such a one is Scott Moncrieff, translator of difficult Marcel Proust. And such a one is Arthur Waley, translator of exquisite Chinese poetry and of the monumental Japanese novel by Lady Murasaki. Translator Waley...
If Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, Dack at Peking last week after four months in the Gobi Desert, was quoted correctly in despatches, he has found the skull of antique monster more stupendous than any ever before learned of by man.
Other chemists as learned as Professor Keyes, however, doubt the practicability of his electroplating with aluminum. He takes an aluminum salt (like aluminium bromide), dissolves it in an organic solution (ordinary electroplating uses metal salts in water), submerges the object to be coated, and through both solution and object passes...
With the ascendancy of the Medicis, Nicolo lost his job, was accused of plotting against the new rulers, banished to his poverty-stricken country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with...