Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Essentially an optimist, Eisenhower thought at first that Russia and the West had a good chance of working out their postwar differences, tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin...
The cards gave alumni a chance either to approve the plaque plan or ask for a balloting. Although the Alumni Committee last night would not announce the results, it was learned that a large number of alumni have asked for a vote.
The so-called "liberal" Republicans are different from the Capeharts and the Brickers and the Greens and the Martins not because they are radicals, for they are nothing of the sort. From all we know of them, men like Aiken and Flanders of Vermont, Ives of New York, and Morse...
Wily old (80) Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the world's richest men, reputedly learned to bargain in the rug bazaars of Turkey. So it was no trick for him to block a deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in the Middle East. The...
Sherwood says that Hopkins, Wallace and many another New Dealer were slow in understanding the threat to the U.S. in Axis aggression. But F.D.R. valued Hopkins enough to spell out patiently the facts of international life for him, and Harry learned so fast that by March 5, 1941, Secretary Stimson...