Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voice of Experience. In St. Louis, when Bachelor Kenneth Donzelot asked to be excused from jury duty in a wife-murder trial because he did not "know much about marriage or women," he drew a lecture from Judge James E. McLaughlin: "The court didn't marry until ... 39. The...
The spring meeting was substituted when the Council learned that Wellesley College has already scheduled a similar conference next year.
When Louis was five his mother took him away from Jane Alley, moved some 18 blocks to Liberty Street, near Perdido in the old third ward. Socially it was the shortest of steps, but it was up, and for Louis it was decisive: near by were the Fisk School, where...
Dr. Haagen-Smit hopes that his work may develop into a new technique of flavor preservation. When vegetables are dehydrated, for instance, many of their volatile flavoring compounds are lost. After chemists have learned what these compounds are, they may be able to devise tricks for capturing and restoring the...
At 63, Willy Loman, who all his life has been a salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself...