Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. and Britain were following a third course. There was no name for it yet, but it meant standing fast. When the Russians shut off food trains, the U.S. flew in what supplies it could. Standing fast could also mean arming Western food trains and leaving the...
Some of the TV shows were dull, slow and halting; but technicians and performers learned at least three valuable lessons: 1) that TV programs, like any other good show, must be blueprinted and paced off in advance; 2) that lighting and make-up are a long way from perfection; 3...
Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently." The rule excluded Sir Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their...
The Amsterdam meeting had its beginnings back in 1910, when missionaries of many non-Roman Catholic churches met in Edinburgh to discuss their common problems and the possibilities of cooperation. Among them was a U.S. Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent. In the midst of the proceedings, Bishop...
Last week at the A.M.A. convention in Chicago, Drs. Robert M. Marcussen and Harold G. Wolff of New York Hospital told what they had learned in an eight-year study of migraine. The most likely sufferers are reliable, conscientious, hardworking, ambitious people. They want everything just right, so they overload...