Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Gordon Gray had been in the Army only a week when he had a gripe. Bedbugs, he complained to the supply sergeant at Fort Bragg, were making his life miserable. The sergeant met the problem with soldierly calm, promptly issued Private Gray a special weapon: one Flit gun, loaded...
Snakes' Chase. Even so, the critics could find nothing but good in Rudi Bing's reputation. He had learned the opera business from the ground up -in Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management...
That was too much for six Flora businessmen. They organized a syndicate to buy up the mortgage on Crowder's newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The...
Like almost all its predecessors, Two Worlds assembles the members of a family in an English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned...
By using motion pictures or merely his own good naked eye, Efficiency-Expert Gilbreth studied everything his children did or had done to them. He analyzed their dishwashing and typewriting; when they had their tonsils removed, he brought a cameraman in to photograph the whole thing. He learned how to...