Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Patriarch left, the President's desk phone rang. On the other end of the line was W. J. Pace, a farmer of Alamance County, N.C. Farmer Pace was calling because he is the proud owner of the one-millionth rural telephone installed by the Bell system since...
Emile Allais' one-track mind leaves visible traces-he is a skier. He grew up in the French Alpine village of Mégève, and there learned his skiing early. He raced all over Europe, won the 1937 downhill and slalom world's championships, coached the...
In Manhattan, the Royal Roost, hoping to heighten bebop's moral and intellectual tone, opened a milk bar for teen-agers in the yellow leather corral. A learned study of bebop by Jazz Columnist Leonard Feather was under way, and a letter had been dispatched to Bernard Shaw to...
The reason for this, said Slichter, was that U.S. businessmen have not yet learned to write off the inflationary water-in their profits. When the value of inventories rose, businessmen took a paper profit, ignoring the fact that the replacement cost had risen too. They did the same with their...
Old, Old Granddad. In Magazine, Ark., John Park Cravens withdrew his complaint that he had never received his order of four quarts of whiskey, advertised at $3.20, when he learned that the ad was 48 years old.