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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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I am an interested reader of your letters from the people and have learned many things from this column-my father being a subscriber.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Royal coachman, black gnat, grizzly king, professor! If Calvin Coolidge never again has sport he will at least remember the summer of 1928 as the time when he learned his fly-book by heart, casting on the brown Brule stream. As July petered out and the level of the waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Summer Sports | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

The Secretary of the Treasury was last week "resting, just resting" at Dinard, on the French coast. But he had a visitor, S. Parker Gilbert, Agent-General for Reparations. And after seeing Mr. Mellon, Agent Gilbert went to Paris, called on Premier Poincaré of France. They talked, it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mellon | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Votes (1907, 1910, 1911, 1915) to legalize Sunday baseball. A vote (1909) against Sunday theatre performances. A vote (1910) in favor of letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet and Wetter | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

With $500,000 surplus cash to put aside until it is needed, a corporation usually does one of two things. It may bury the money, either in gilt-edged securities, yielding from 3 to 4%, or in its bank account, where it draws 2% as a commercial deposit. Or it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stockmarket | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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