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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Harvard Stadium, generally pictured as the scene of football battles and track meets, will be out to a radically different use next June, when it will provide the setting for a gigantic historical pageant, the chief feature of the Cambridge Tercentennial program in 1930. Although no official release has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY IS GIVEN USE OF STADIUM FOR PAGEANT IN 1930 | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

Turning to Princeton, one reads the same day that not nearly so many graduates now enter the ministry as formerly used to be the case. But will that reconcile the undergraduates to having had a gloomy football year? Many Princeton alumni who afterward pounded the cushions of a pulpit learned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overemphasis Again | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

Editor Weitzenkorn was full of hope when he took the editorship of the Graphic last August. Said he then: "The Graphic unquestionably got off to a bad start. Its tone has been a low voice. Its policy was a 'chemise' policy. So far as Mr. Macfadden is concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chemise Sheet | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

One learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Optimism effected Helen Keller. With blind eyes she envisioned practical consequences tomorrow of what was wisest to do today. Through only a month of this practical optimism, she learned language at the age of seven. Miss Keller's career has also a social significance. The mind of no other deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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