Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During this latest period, Brown has been coached first by Skip Stahley, and now by Rip Engle. Both had learned almost everything they know about football from Harlow. They wanted to beat the Old Man badly, but, at the same time, they were afraid of him.
With the fading of tutorial from the College scene has gone much of the educational value of the Houses. Once upon a time a student had a tutor in his own House, with whom he could talk and cat on an informal basis from time to time. The tutee also...
His first visit to Europe in 20 years had helped do the trick. Attending scientific conferences in Brussels and Birmingham, Oppenheimer had learned how despairing the life of the intellect had become in postwar Europe. Viewed from Princeton, the Institute might have its shortcomings; viewed from Europe, it had something...
Most startling was Dart's evidence, from a number of charred bones, that the little man had learned to use fire. He lived in the early Ice Age, from 300,000 to 500,000 years before Peking Man, hitherto the earliest known user of fire. In honor of both...
Meredith refused to forgive her, a circumstance that led his early biographers to consider him hardhearted. Mary Meredith wandered from place to place, unhappy and alone; her husband was relentless until just before her death, when he allowed their son to visit her. Out of the tragedy of their life...