Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Policeman's Lot. In Cincinnati, Detective Herman Kahn chased Owen Donovan up & down 25 flights of hotel stairs for an hour and a half, caught him, learned that playful Donovan "couldn't sleep and decided to get some exercise."
¶ Offhand, the picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned...
Curious, Ankara's Yeni Sabah inquired further, learned that Madame Hassanov had been caught reading a forbidden book. The book: Russian Expatriate Victor Kravchenko's terrifying story of life in the Soviet Union, I Chose Freedom.
Back in Venezuela, Gabaldón reviewed his problem. Half of his countrymen suffered from malaria at one time or another. It broke the spirit as well as the body. "People with malaria just don't care," says Gabaldón. "They don't even care if you...
Other pastimes for the man who has learned "everything" about the sport are skiing on one slat, using only one ski while holding the tow rope with the other foot, changing skis at full speed, and changing skis with another fanatic behind the same boat.