Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sentiment v. Practicality. Some of the present, not-yet-departed great recorded their indignation. Cried learned Sir Arthur Salter (one of Oxford's two M.P.s): "It is a blow ... at learning and education . . . when many people . . . are asking what ... is going to be Socialist equality. Is it going to...
Showman Gonzalez was not alone in the international claim-staking act. The Argentines were in a dispute with the British over Antarctic lands and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Argentine Task Force I, five ships with no fewer than five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on...
Prokofiev didn't show up in person to recant his sins. He was ill, the meeting was told. But he was already at work on a new opera about a Soviet pilot who learned to fly again after losing both legs. He promised to follow party directives, and use...
There is no doubt that through UMT the country can gain an increased military reserve. But it will be a reserve only in that it has learned to live in a barracks, to overcome homesickness, to fire an M1 rifle. The talents that could be acquired in six months would...
Student 'phone-seekers will get the busy signal for some time to come, it was learned last night, as Cambridge dial officials announced that no new instruments can be installed in College rooms for at least another five months.