Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In her spare time, hard-working Mrs. Vining has been studying Japanese. She had been hired merely to teach Akihito English (he has Japanese instructors in everything else), but she found it hard to get the prince to pay attention. So many learned professors and eminent lawyers had lectured Akihito...
A Matter of Education. "The refusal to believe it is now declining," says Father Lassalle. "Japanese education is responsible for the tragedy. It is not at the bottom bad will, or even pride, but narrow-mindedness and naivete. That is the mistake of the Japanese people. Once they understand what...
Jackie Robinson had already learned, by a lifetime's practice, the lesson another Robinson-soft-shoe dancing Bojangles* -once laid down while acting as the unofficial Mayor of Harlem. Bojangles' formula: "Do the best you can with what you've got . . . and get along with the white...
No Tools. Almost as soon as the war started in 1939, the Germans learned (Heisenberg does not say how) that the U.S. had allocated funds to research on atomic energy. The Germans quickly set up their own project. But, says Heisenberg: "Public interest in the problems of atomic physics was...
Creaks & Cobwebs. Soon after their arrival, they learned that they would have to submit elaborate applications in sextodeciplicate for permission to go ahead on any deal, await clearance through an involved hierarchy which included Boeki Kodan (the Japanese Government's Public Trade Co.), Boeki Cho (its Board of Trade...