Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early last week Henry Wallace held a press conference in his Manhattan headquarters. He acted like a man on a Benzedrine binge. Newsmen had never seen him so elated. Everything that had happened to him lately, he bubbled, had been good news for him. And now Henry had just learned...
Marauding Bears. Liberty Hyde Bailey, born during the Buchanan administration, was raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or...
At 24, at Michigan Agricultural College, Liberty Hyde Bailey founded the first department of horticulture in any U.S. college. Six years later, he went to Cornell. He set up its first departments of plant pathology, plant physiology, plant breeding and soil technology. As dean of Cornell's College of...
Later generations of rats followed this policy. They went where man went, ate what he ate. They learned his ways and, hitched to man's rising star, flourished. At present the black and brown rats are more completely domesticated than horses or cattle; there are none at all in...
With the top-level labor leadership of Walter P. Reuther a six-months established fact, it is hardly surprising that Walter P. Reuther the effective political figure should start coming of age. Wednesday afternoon at Baker Library the President of the United Auto Workers completely conveyed the integrity of his...