Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Wisdom. The U.S. was strong; it was generous. Was it also wise? History would have to judge; at least the people of the U.S. were showing their capacity to learn. Though they were still busy with their own affairs, Americans were beginning to understand the hard lesson they had...
. . . The Oregon [sex education] plan is a lot better way to learn about sex than the way I learned it during my elementary school years . . .
The next day Dozier learned that his story for TIME had been killed in its entirety. The Government had imposed a tight censorship on all communications-except for unaccountable slip-ups like Correspondent Mac Johnson's prearranged daily telephone call from his paper, the New York Herald Tribune. The...
M.C.A. representatives traveled all over the U.S. preaching pre-natal care, and founded institutes in which 25,000 nurses learned better techniques of caring for women in childbirth; in 1932 a school was established for training nurse-midwives to replace ignorant midwives. The association is proud of the part it...
Most farmers had learned to put their fat profits to good use. Mortgages had been paid off; those that still remained were generally low in relation to farm income. The farmers still remembered how prices had collapsed after the World War I boom (see cut) as overmortgaged farmers had been...