Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While their leader secluded himself in cold, lonely Kuling last winter, the Chinese people knew only that he was meditating on China's fate. Last week, China and the world learned of the decision Chiang had reached. In an effort to lead China farther along the road to democracy...
His early popularity did not fool Nash; he was plagued by a sense of his own inadequacy as well as by ill health. Leaning on his silver-headed cane, he explored the English countryside, gradually learned to search out the geometry existing in what he saw, and to base his...
The Concertgebouw learned many a score under the baton of the composer himself-Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith-and many more under guest experts like Pierre Monteux, Ernest Ansermet (TIME, Feb. 2), Bruno Walter. For 45 of its 60 years it felt the sure hand of the same good conductor, Willem Mengelberg...
Helpful. The chief apologists for Kinsey (who was not invited to the meeting, although he was in Manhattan) were medical men. Public health men, said Dr. J. R. Heller of the U.S. Public Health Service, have learned much from the book. The PHS will aim its antivenereal disease campaigns at...
For their part, the German students seemed most anxious to hear about life in the U.S. But some could not conceal their disappointment when they learned that their new professors were planning to teach ordinary, old-fashioned subjects. They had been hoping to hear about atomic energy.