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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the court recessed last June, Wiley Rutledge took his family to Maine for a vacation. There he learned of the death of his close colleague, Frank Murphy (TIME, Aug. 1). And there, last week, in a tiny hospital at York Village where he had lain for eight days in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Death of a Scholar | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

It was a happy arrangement. The police gave the balloonist a night's lodging. The London paper offered to telephone his wife and pay his way back to Belgium in return for an exclusive story. "I accepted," said van der Straeten, "and suddenly learned just what journalism is-six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Flight by Moonlight | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Since Portia is always on the air-five days a week, 52 weeks out of the year-Mona Kent had to lead a double life to get her novel written. For two weeks at a time she would concentrate on her radio show and get far enough ahead so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Lady Is Insecure | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

By this week, B.E.A.'s replies were rolling in, half of them in Latin. Said one, freely translated: "Most learned manager of sales: Nothing would be more welcome to me than to ... travel to Rome . . . But the LIII libras are lacking unto me. Farewell." Total response to date: VL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: LIII Libras | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Ward, a 6 ft., 200-lb. Boston Irishman, learned to keep his eye on the ball while winning New England's golf championship in 1930. Since 1931, when Maine's Sanford Mills and Goodall Worsted Co. first decided to make Palm Beach suits as well as Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLOAKS & SUITS: Stitch in Time | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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