Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In India, plain people learned the practical meaning of devaluation when a well-known dollar product, Ovaltine, shot up from 3½rupees to 5 in the bazaars.
His knack for administration was uncanny: he showed an instantaneous grasp of personnel problems, gave subordinates snappy decisions which constantly left them with an awed "why-didn't-I-think-of-that?" feeling. He handled his bosses with equal ease. The day he learned that peppery Lord Beaverbrook was...
Opening day was a nerve-racker for some. High-school students in Hazleton, Pa. went on strike when they learned that the school board had voted to abolish football. "No sports-no school," cried their picket signs. "Township unfair to students." Worcester, Mass, was trying to find a teacher of...
Last week, despairing of a legislative remedy, the U.S. Public Health Service turned to the next best thing: a nationwide educational program to encourage housewives to ask the grocer for iodized salt. When Ohio's Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton introduced a compulsory iodization bill, the Salt Producers' Association...
He was shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort...