Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons quickly learned to know him as a pipe-smoking, stocky, imperturbable Average Man who might have served as model for Punch's famed John Bull. He and Lucy were strict Sabbatarians, would not even read Sunday papers. His radio chats, larded with folksy platitudes about "service" and "playing...
The two remaining commonly used methods of instruction do not perform this necessary task. Discussion or section meetings and assigned reading depend for their value upon the capability of the individual instructor who conducts the meeting or assigns the reading. They can be and are valuable; but they are more...
This low finance was as high as Trader got, but chimpanzees can master a subtler money economy. At Yale's Laboratories of Primate Biology, Dr. John Wolfe confronted six young and impressionable chimpanzees with a "chimp-o-mat," a slot machine which passed out a grape when fed a...
This intensive cultivation makes it impossible to skim a "national" daily* like the Express or Daily Mail as you might glance through a big U.S. paper. There are too many items on a page, and a headline is craftily written less to tell the news than to lure the reader...
Robert the Second. Bob the Second had been preparing for the job since the age of four, when he rode his first horse. He learned to rope, cut out cattle and shoot a pistol with either hand. As a boy, he used to rise before dawn, and with brother Dick...