Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, in 1941, Mrs. Guerrero learned that she had leprosy. She began taking treatment. But when the Japs invaded the Philippines, the leprosariums were abandoned. She returned to Manila and joined the underground. With other young Ma nila matrons, she worked to help the internees and U.S. prisoners of war...
How to Learn Too Well. Thorez had fallen this far-to the point where he could be sarcastically complimented by a party upstart-because he had learned the Moscow lesson too thoroughly. Of all the French leaders, he had the closest experience of Kremlin policy during World War II. He...
Idleness sat ill on Klondike Mike. Along with his Alaskan partner, George Rich, he started a trucking business in Ottawa, built it into one of the biggest in Canada. Then he took a major step. At 53, he learned to read and write.
That opened up a new world to Mike. For the first time he read the sourdough sagas of Jack London and Robert Service, and learned of a Klondike more glittering than his own. At first he carefully distinguished between his own achievements and the sourdough sagas, recited with a will...
Schary kept mum about his plans, and refused to verify any rumors (that he might go to Goldwyn, Columbia or back to Selznick). The people he left behind at RKO were not taking it so calmly. In a business where many of the bosses learned about movies in banks or...