Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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O.K., K. In Philadelphia, an alert civic organization investigated some mysterious communications, relaxed when it learned that the initials on the notes belonged to one Katherine K. Kirk.
Road to Riches. In Johannesburg, the city council finally learned why some local road building was proceeding so slowly: people kept finding gold in the crushed rock.
Few Ambassadors ever came to Washington with the spectacular advance notices of Great Britain's tweedy, impassive Lord Inverchapel. His glittering reputation spanned more than 40 years of service in most of the world's capitals (Moscow, Chungking, Bagdad, etc.). But once in the U.S., Inverchapel became known...
¶ The Chamber of Commerce of Omak, Wash. (pop. 3,000), refused to sponsor the Okanogan County preliminaries for this gear's Miss America beauty contest when it learned that, under the terms of the franchise, only white girls could compete. One-third of Omak lies in the Colville...
The Unknown Tongue. Some relics of the ancients are wrapped, not in the mud, but in the deeper mystery of a still-untranslated language. The big-nosed Hittites (Sons of Heth in the Bible), who dominated Asia Minor from earliest biblical times, left stone-cut inscriptions so numerous and so...