Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trader learned quickly which chips had monkey value. He traded the white (banana) chips oftener than any other. Runner-up: the blue (peanut) chips.
But the greatest of all Langdell's innovations was the establishment of the "case system" of instruction. Whereas formerly students learned the law from texts, they now turned to the original cases which made the law, learning what reasoning was behind decisions and the conditions under which the case had...
Maurice Goldblatt went down to the Midway to see what new facilities were needed. At first, he and the scientists found each other mutually forbidding. The fast-talking little (5 ft. 4 in.) merchant used business lingo and bad grammar. (Once, when a woman innocently asked Goldblatt if he spoke...
"I was in the front lines. . . . We learned about night patrols and fear, and a lot of us learned about prayer. I think that was when I decided on my vocation to the Cistercian life, lying in a shallow foxhole listening to a boy mumble 'O Lord! O Lord...
In St. Louis, the National Council for the Social Studies juggled a hot question: "What shall we teach about Russia now?" William H. E. Johnson of the American Council of Learned Societies helpfully advised teachers to study Russia "objectively," report the findings "honestly." Complained another speaker: How could high-school...