Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The North Atlantic pact confirmed on paper what most people knew in their hearts: that the world's nations are divided into two massive blocs. Reluctantly, the free nations had turned back from the high hopes of San Francisco to the bitter lesson learned at Munich in 1938. There...
Charles F. Tesreau, attorney for Doxsee, recounted the sequence of events leading to Cirrotta's death as he had learned it from the six men. He admitted that none of them could remember exact times or exactly who had done what.
Physics was different. "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else." It was only much later, after years of independent scientific work, that he realized "that the approach to a more profound knowledge of the basic principles...
In the nearly 20 years since he had graduated from Curtis-where, White says, "everyone was a genius"-he had learned that he was not one. Bowing his viola in the St. Louis Symphony for six years, then in Hollywood's radio and recording studios, he had become convinced...
Compulsory fees and tuition at Princeton will rise by $40 next fall, bringing the total to $700, it was learned yesterday.