Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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See? In Memphis, Charles Sanders Jr. landed in a hospital, learned that he had been hit by a truck while trying to prove to friends that he "could walk home blindfolded."
The war boosted the wet cause. Thousands of factory workers and servicemen imported bootleg liquor from Missouri. Kansas boys, raised on lemonade, went away to war, learned there was something more exhilarating, came home demanding more of the same. Bootleggers rejoiced and multiplied; bonded liquor went to $16 a fifth...
Uncle Bernabé. In such operations, Tacho learned a lot from the history of his great-uncle, the late Bernabé Somoza, who met an untimely death in the igth Century. Bernabé was an outlaw in the Nicaraguan town of Rivas, and he loved cockfighting and roistering even more...
Tacho's own father was an honest small farmer who lived in the Nicaraguan town of San Marcos. With the help of a few good coffee crops, he sent his son to a business college in Philadelphia. Young Tacho learned a little bookkeeping, learned a lot about basic advertising...
Mystery lovers can be grateful to the learned Dr. Wolff. With all his painstaking erudition, he has not solved, but has deepened the fascinating mystery of Easter Island.