Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He learned that Secretary George Marshall did not share Joe Stalin's enthusiasm for a U.S.-Soviet meeting, at least not on the terms that Wallace had laid down. To 8,000 University of California students he cried: "I have no doubt that many of you felt, on reading...
No Gunfire. MacArthur had long ago learned Japanese ways of thinking. He knew the Japanese thirst for leaders and their love of idols. When he went into Japan in 1945, he capitalized on this knowledge.
* Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) named it aluminum. British scientists changed it to aluminium to harmonize with sodium, lithium, etc. Britain still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a...
At first the camera kept its eye close up, on pitcher & batter, and followed the runner to first. It has since learned that one of television's big thrills is watching Outfielder Joe DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without looking back...
But Board Chairman Straus thought that Eversharp had learned its lesson. It had "expended so great a portion of its time and attention in solving the problems of the ball-point pen that certain developments in its conventional . . . business were, perhaps, under-emphasized." From now on, Eversharp was going to...