Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him...
So it is difficult to criticize, this Signature. These people are not writers; they are learning to write. Some have learned much since their last published attempts; others, A. Stavrolakes and Naomi Raphaelson, have already produced more artfully than they do in the current issue. Therefore one cannot just take...
American popular music, from groaner's moan to Dixieland jazz, is a highly exportable commodity. So the State Department has learned from its new international disc jockey, Martin Block, whose weekly half-hour of music and informal chatter has become the Voice of America's most popular program...
Stroock & Co. had hardly wiped off the red ink from two bad years when Mrs. Murphy went to work. A graduate of Spring Valley (N.Y.) High School and Manhattan's Lusk Institute (now defunct), she learned fashion and fabrics by going to night school and hobnobbing with Manhattan'...
Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees...