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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, many Americans saw and learned to play our game . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

One of the few things the Dutch learned to like about the Germans was their zeal for opera. The Germans started a Dutch opera with native singers and musicians and the Dutch loved it. At war's end, they decided to keep it. Last week, at Holland's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Really Quite All Right | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

A major difficulty at first was infertile eggs. As every barnyard observer knows, mating roosters need their wings for balance. Baumann's early wingless roosters were so unstable that often only some 10% of the eggs would hatch at all. Baumann sometimes used artificial insemination. Eventually nature solved the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Wings | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Since then he has found that he will be expected to work harder for his hospital than he had bargained for. He had not realized that the festival (which Hutchins calls "the greatest cultural event ever held in the U.S.") would be held at 7,930-ft.-high Aspen-a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reverence for Life | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

To most of the workers, merchants, prostitutes and thieves who inhabited the tiny Via del Corno in 1925, Mussolini's recent power grab was of less interest than neighborhood scandal. But Carlino, the Fascist clerk, itched for the Second Wave that would bring revenge on his political enemies. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italian Alley | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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