Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson was spending a quiet Sunday puttering around his Maryland farm when he first learned of the "peace offer" from Moscow. Joseph Stalin had dug into his mail sack of questions indefatigably asked by U.S. news correspondents. He picked out a tempting set sent in by...
Next morning the guests learned what Lange had known all during the party-that Russia had peremptorily questioned Norway about her joining the proposed North Atlantic Defense Pact, in effect had warned her to stay out of it. Scandinavia's period of fence-sitting was coming to a close...
Since King Unericus cut out tongues, men have not diminished in evil, but they have learned subtler arts and more refined tortures than the knife and pincers. Nobody can prove that Mindszenty was drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life...
The man most responsible for the hemisphere trade is a Spanish-born (1889), Chilean-raised, U.S.-trained salesman for Hays named Eladio Susaeta. His first employer, a rich Chilean rancher, sent him north to study animal husbandry at the University of California. Susaeta wrote his boss what he learned about...
One advantage of the pilot bed is that a pilot lying down does not have as much frontal area as a pilot sitting up. This was not very important with old-fashioned propeller planes. There was plenty of space for a seated pilot behind a reciprocating engine. But jet engines...