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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Vasily Stalin, 28, a backward son when a schoolboy, demonstrated last week that he has learned to recite perfectly: "Every participant in the coming aviation parade [which was later rained out and postponed a week] will demonstrate his love and gratitude to the creator and organizer of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

U.S. composers (like Harvard's Walter Piston) have taken pride in being told that their music was "stravinskyesque." Aaron Copland, best of native U.S. composers, believes that Stravinsky's continuing hold on composers "is without parallel since Wagner's day." Even Bebopper Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Kenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Mechanic | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Modern Madonnas. For the next few years, Héctor studied in Caracas and Mexico City, watched the great and violent Orozco work, and painted alone in his little Mexico City apartment. "But I tried not to have much Mexican influence," he says, "because I don't feel that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nightmare Alley | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

By the time this movement got under way, birds had already evolved into modern types. Dr. Wolfson thinks that some of them had learned to make comparatively short seasonal migrations between feeding and nesting places, that generation after generation, for millions of years, they stuck to the same routes. New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossil Flight Plan | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

What did Hughes, the lone wolf, want with RKO? He takes great pains to hide his motives; but no doubt one motive was his hankering for theater outlets controlled by himself. RKO owns 124 theaters. Hughes has had great trouble distributing The Outlaw-that long and vigorously publicized mixture of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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