Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his son's fellow prisoners old Bill learned part of the real story.
(However, it was learned last night that on November 15, when the delegation no longer suspected Smith's Communist complexion, Fisher again went on record against the DP proposal.)
In Pearson's long feud with the late "Cissy" Patterson, he learned that you can't win an argument with mother-in-law (TIME, May 18, 1942 et seq.). Cissy and Pearson had continued to get along fine even after Drew and Cissy's daughter Felicia got...
Owl In the Twilight. At this point, when he had gathered much of his material and learned life in the wilderness and among the Indians at first hand, his health gave way. He overtaxed his heart, his eyesight failed, and he became too crippled with arthritis to sit on a...
But if readers want literary criticism in addition to encyclopedia-style knowledge, the History will prove less satisfying. Too often it discusses writers as examples of "trends" or "forces" rather than judging them by the pleasure they can still yield to readers. What the History lacks most is individuality. Either...