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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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On one field at West Point, Blaik's offensive unit blocked against Michigan defense until it began to look as if Army was going to play a one-game schedule in 1949. From studying movies, Blaik learned that 230-lb. Alvin Wistert, Michigan's All-America tackle, stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Obsession | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

When slim, brown-haired Martha Lucas took over the presidency of Virginia's Sweet Briar College for women in 1946, she announced that she would "promote world awareness in every possible way." She planned new instruction "on the Orient, Russia, South America," a broad curriculum which would include "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Woman of the World | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

But for Denise Chambon it was a happy day. When the bac jurymen finished tabulating the results, Denise learned she had passed second on a list of twelve with an assez bien after her name. At her home her mother and bus-conductor father received the news proudly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bac & the Trac | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Hesse is plainly smiling at all ivory-tower intellectuals, all tight little groups that seek salvation by separateness. Joseph Knecht apparently learned his lesson just in time. "We're all in this together,"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of the Game | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Last week, registering at the U. of L., Reporter Amster said happily: "How are you going to know what you want to study until you've been out in the world and learned what you need to know?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Experiment in Louisville | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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