Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anchors Aweigh. The effect of the announcement on Louis Denfeld and other naval officers was both strange and pathetic. Denfeld learned he had been fired only when Vice Admiral John Dale Price (who had gotten the news from a reporter) burst into his office and blurted: "Admiral, the President has...
The court agreed. In a chatty decision written by 77-year-old Judge Learned Hand, the court gently deplored Schmidt's "moment of what may have been unnecessary frankness." But "recent investigations . . . have disclosed-what few people would have doubted in any event-that his practice is far from...
In their use of color the paintings of the impressionists were like windows looking out onto sun-filled space. Van Gogh's were more like lamps; the powerful contrasts of pure color created an effect of light-vibration which was not confined to the pictures themselves but seemed to...
In their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to...
Last week Mrs. Cohen was able to sum up her experience: "What a headache being lucky can be!" Soon after the first night's excitement, the Cohens learned what it was like to be continually annoyed and worried. After a tractor was delivered at the apartment, they took steps...