Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Waiting. Louis Johnson did not sulk for long. He simply learned another lesson: how to wait. He turned down a scattering of minor job offers from a conscience-smitten Franklin Roosevelt, still holding out for the War Department or nothing. Finally he took a wartime lend-lease mission to...
Then, this spring, Mr. Cohen learned of an opening in the philosophy department. It was an instructorship in Directed Studies, similar to tutorial at Harvard and designed for outstanding freshmen and sophomores.
Professor Northrop also soon learned of the charge. After a long talk with Mr. Cohen, he went to the Provost and stated that he definitely believed the charges to be false. Provost Furniss then agreed that the case seemed to demand further investigation and expressed a desire to talk with...
It was a disaster for son Abraham Livingston Gump, if no great loss to the art world, when Gump's stock was burned out in the 1906 earthquake. "A.L." decided that Western art wasn't everything: he sent buyers to Japan and China to collect Oriental art. Gump...
Well Out of It. In Dunn, N.C., Defeated Candidate George W. Williams placed an ad in the local newspaper congratulating the winners and thanking those who did not vote for him in the municipal elections: he had just learned "how badly the town is in debt."