Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the grand jury washed its hands of the matter. The acting state's attorney explained that it had found the stories too conflicting to justify a criminal charge. Joe, who had already learned about the law, had nothing more to say.
Bon Voyage. In Liverpool, England, determined Traveler George Smith belatedly learned about British export laws, auctioned off at the pier his car and a greyhound, then learned that he could not take his earnings out, gave away his auction money.
"Some Ordinary Blokes." Lord Addison conferred with Labor's Herbert Morrison. Labor would agree to a conference, on condition that it would not affect the progress of the bill to clip the Lords' powers. That was not satisfactory to the Tory Lords. Debate ranged wide. Lord Lindsay of...
As soon as he learned that a plot was afoot, Betancourt sent Nicaraguan President Victor Roman y Reyes an urgent telegram: Venezuelan exiles at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, were loading two former U.S. Navy bombers, manned by U.S. crews, for a bombing run over Caracas. He named names, listed airplane numbers...
On the Press, Sloan, like Fellow Draftsmen Glackens and Shinn, sketched the fires, suicides and parades which news photographers cover today. Of necessity they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the...