Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this water meant, the farmers had already learned. Last year, 510 acres on eleven farms were irrigated. Their average return, mainly from cotton, was $130 an acre, v. $22 an acre for non-irrigated land. This year, 3,200 acres on 60 farms have been irrigated. On these lands...
Ever since V-E day, Hermann has had his sights set on the U.S. He read all the books he could find in Berlin by American authors (Tom Paine, Walt Whitman, John Dos Passes, Thornton Wilder). Working on the staff of Die Neue Zeitung, American-edited newspaper, he learned to...
Cats & Dogs. Margaret, who will be four this month, started taking lessons last fall and has already learned 18 pieces. Being a little girl, she never sits still very long, so her teacher gives her only 20-minute lessons. Margaret can now read music, but can only pick words like...
Parker's company is based in Janesville, Wis., a thriving small town (pop. 22,992) in the Chicago Tribune's isolationist heartland. Last week, Parker decided that it was about time his 2,300 employees and the other citizens of Janesville learned how important foreign trade is to...
The first yarn in English about an interplanetary voyage was Bishop Godwin's Man in the Moone (1638), in which birds called "gansas" dragged an astounded visitor there in a dozen days. Another early example was Holberg's Journey to the World Under Ground (1742)-a world of...