Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Guatemala, the women of all classes know an ancient secret learned from the Indians: an herbal tea made from ixbut (rhymes with fish-boot) increases the flow of mother's milk.
Sir William learned oil chemistry at Glasgow's Royal Technical College, worked as an office boy in his father's oil shale company. In 1919, Anglo-Iranian (then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He...
In Turkey, where close trading is a centuries-old art imbibed with mother's milk, the No. 1 mule trader is squat, swarthy Mahmout Safyurtlu. Last year, when Mahmout heard that EGA would pay for several thousand mules for Greece, he perked up his ears. Mahmout scurried to Athens...
The prince, who has obviously learned a few tricks from the British army, comes equipped with electric generators, searchlights and walkie-talkie sets. He has also brought along his royal fiancee (Gail Russell), armed with a movie camera. The challenge is impressive, but Sabu meets it by scuttling about at...
Reverse Charges. In Mobile, Ala., Mrs. Mildred Rice read the fine print on her divorce decree, learned that she had been given custody of her ex-husband rather than her child.