Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hot music's anaesthetic effect must have made it particularly popular in Europe during the period between the wars. France had its stringed Hot Club, and Hugues Pannassie learned to speak English with a Louisiana accent. In his biography, "Swing That Music," Louis Armstrong refers to his 1934 Continental tour...
This Time Tomorrow (by Jan de Hartog; produced by the Theatre Guild) is as solemn as a church organ and as hollow as a drum. A young scientist working on cancer research falls in love with a young girl dying of tuberculosis. Indeed, the X rays proclaim that she should...
The saddening aspect of Freshman football, however, is that only two games remain for the newly found team. After the Yale tussle the squad will not play together again and only a privileged few will more on to the Varsity or Jayvee ranks to practice further what they learned under...
White men learned how to survive in a brutal country from the Indians and demonstrated their gratitude by destroying a race. The Indians could not adapt themselves to civilization and soon became the victims in one of the greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed...
The thumping had a pulverizing effect even on those who, long ago, had disabused themselves of rose-colored notions, concerning R.C. Harlow and his merry band. A few hearts remained in spiringly stout until it was learned that a team from providence had convincingly defeated a team from New Haven...