Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides turning up an envelope containing "a substantial amount of cash" police said they had learned how the bandits escaped from the robbery by switching cars in Central Square.
The hope was slim. In his lifetime his fellow men had sensed that Gandhi had a great message; of what the message was, they had scarcely an inkling. Gandhi, by the manner of his death, told them a little more of what he had been trying to communicate-but not...
Meanwhile, René Mayer's economic window-smashing had bewildered and frightened Frenchmen. Prices of oranges, chickens, beans, eggs skittered nervously upward. Many a thrifty soul with a sockful of 5,000-franc notes spent an anxious two days before he learned that the government would redeem his notes...
Almost every day of his hunted existence was a new complex of calculations and risks; a single muddleheaded moment might have ruined him. Despite the author's simplicity, the reader gradually becomes aware of his extraordinary energy and coolness. But the book is not only an adventure story but...
A second thing Renault learned was that the home office could be wrong. He had the name and address of a patriot in Marseille who would be able to get him a radio operator for his secret transmitter. The patriot, as it turned out, was scandalized at the very idea...