Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"We have learned our history lesson from two world wars in less than half a century. That experience has taught us that the control of Europe by a single aggressive, unfriendly power would constitute an intolerable threat to the national security of the United States . . . We've also learned...
Living on relief, she did not even apply for an allowance for her new son. To Gerald's half brothers and half sister, he was her sister's child; from their mother's behavior, they learned to treat him as someone different and shameful. To anyone who...
Lee Shubert, 74, who likes plenty of publicity for his 16 Broadway playhouses, was still being shy about his private life. It took a Reno divorce last September to disclose the fact that he had been married for twelve years to former Actress Marcella Swanson, some 30 years his junior...
They got used to new smells-including the acrid insecticides that were sprayed through the plane before tropical stops. On the 8½-hour hop across the South Atlantic to Dakar, plane riders learned how uneventful a trip could be: in hours of staring out the window, a pair of...
Three years out of college, he helped organize Colonial Air Transport, which won the first U.S. airmail contract. But when he daringly proposed that little Colonial's Boston-New York route be stretched all the way to Florida, his staid New England backers were alarmed. Trippe pulled out, having...