Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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O Gheros (The Old Man), as Greeks affectionately called him, was born on the Aegean Island of Samos in 1860-according to most accounts; some people declare that he was born earlier than that, but that he liked to chop a few years off his age. As an archeologist, he...
In his late years The Old Man learned that collaboration with the Communists was impossible. With U.S. support and prodding, as head of a Liberal-Right wing coalition, he pursued the civil war as best he could. He was generally regarded as Greece's wisest statesman (which was not...
Christ & Picasso. The show centered on nine paintings of the Crucifixion, done in oils on thin paper. Rose had long been regarded as a decorative, eclectic artist with a low emotional octane rating: overnight his new pictures established him as a force in British painting. Said London's Art...
Gould learned to pack a pistol, and never to sit with his back to the door.
Pay Dirt Farther Down. For any businessmen not acutely aware that many prices were still too high, the Federal Reserve Board had some enlightenment. In a survey made early this year, FRB reported that consumers had almost as much cash as the year before, but were less ready to spend...