Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Will he never grow up?" wondered Britons when they learned, last week, that Edward of Wales, 33, had slipped off like an Eton schoolboy to the new Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in Marylebone Road.† There His Royal Highness promenaded for an hour unrecognized, viewed an excellent dummy likeness...
Methodist support of church unity, which was so forcibly demonstrated last week (TIME, May 21), was again emphasized when the bishops gave their approval to moves for merging the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Korea. With pleasure, they received messages from Congregationalist State Conventions which...
Having learned from his singing father-in-law the politic value of give & take, he last year gave Radio Corporation of America, General Electric and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing important rights in his FBO Pictures Corp. Thereby he gained a valuable tie-up for his cinema studios with radio studios.
Learned with pleasure that, after their approval, Ellis Laurimore Phillips, president of the Long Island Lighting Co. and the Empire Power Corp. in Manhattan, had provided a donation of $500,000 toward the building of the Temple. Mr. Phillips laid two comparatively easy conditions upon the acceptance of his gift...
In the course of his lecture he spoke also of his early career as a newspaper reporter and of his entrance into the profession of learning about and teaching sociology. His confreres, hearing of Professor Giddings' proposed retirement, though they knew that he was 73 years old, were confident...