Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobby too-who is normally the most self-confident man in the game-had learned to respect his rival. Said he: "I've had to change my game, of course. I like to stay back and wait for the ball but now I have to come up to the...
In Orlando, Fla., after two years of experimenting and selective breeding, the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine produced a sturdy strain of houseflies that could survive doses of DDT big enough to scare a beetle. Flies of the 35th generation were as robust as...
Brain child of an American Council of Learned Societies group, Spectator started life with a three-year subsidy ($5,000 a year) from the council, besides gifts from the colleges and other angels. Because of development costs, it had a year-end deficit of $6,000, which Stanford will make...
Solitary Solution. The book reports the life stories of two young drifters, Jack Kaspan and Jane Gellson. Kaspan recalls his months as a P.W. in Germany, where at first he tried desperately to escape. But he soon discovered that the only meaningful area of existence is man's inner...
When the CRIMSON learned on December 2 that Lester Cramer was trying to revive the lucrative trade he enjoyed before the war, the editors decided to send a man around to investigate.