Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Mikkola has been losing so many men lately that he took a fatalistic attitude yesterday when he learned that his number one harrier, Vince Moriarty, is through running for Harvard. Moriarty has been informed that he will have to graduate in February.
After 17 years of commercial lithography and another 17 years of intermittent struggle, Shahn has become the country's most successful practitioner of protest painting. His art is so close to propaganda that some of his pictures have been converted into posters (for the OWI, the War Department and...
Nearly 3,000 painters had heeded the tinkle of Pepsi's cash register. Of their entries, 159 went on display in Manhattan's National Academy of Design last week. The paintings were mostly mediocre landscapes and city scenes. Most of the exhibiting artists were unknown on 57th Street...
But Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace soon learned that in other countries the low standard of living put the price (25?) out of reach of mass buyers.
The Learned Coal Man. For entertainment of another kind, London music lovers in 1678 went to a small room above a coal shop in Jerusalem Passage. There, every Thursday night for 40 years, Thomas Britton, "the Musical Small-Coal Man," gave the capital's best concerts. He hawked coal...