Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Porter's way of life probably equipped him for surmounting the blow that abruptly cut short his pursuit of fun. There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness. Porter himself once said: "I am spending my life escaping boredom, not because I'm bored, but...
O'Brian opened his first school in two abandoned hospital tents. As his pupils learned English, O'Brian mastered Trukese. He taught them to read their own language, using a Trukese Bible that early missionaries had translated. He got older natives to give classes in planting and canoe...
For U.S. colleges and universities, wealthy donors, mysterious or otherwise, seemed to be getting scarcer and scarcer. But last week, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology learned that they had not disappeared entirely. Founded in 1900 with a big endowment from Andrew Carnegie, Tech had just received $6,000...
Presently the philosophy Department will investigate me to find out what I have learned in Philosophy 75 these last four months. Intensive preparation for this event leaves me no time to write a column, so I shall turn over this space to the members of the House Un-American Activities...
97. What attracts so many learned men and women to such a murderous and destructive cause? sometimes it is frustration. Sometimes it is greed or love of power. Sometimes it is misplaced idealism. But ask them. See if they can give you a good reason for having faith in Communism...