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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mrs. Roosevelt is so busy about so many things that she often has good cause to be late. As chairman of U.N.'s Human Rights Commission, she had been delayed, helping to thrash out a human-rights charter for the world, combining common sense with an air of guilelessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: First Lady | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Last week Ottawa's 3,000 regular students (one-third English speaking, two-thirds French) and its staff (125 Oblate fathers, 21 nuns, 147 lay teachers) crowded on to the campus for the university's centenary. They put on a pageant, handed out honorary degrees to ten dignitaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Father Raspberry's School | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Then, at week's end, a Carnegie Hall audience, harder to please, discovered that a French orchestra is more than just another orchestra that happens to come from France: it has a tonal quality all its own. To most U.S. ears, used to lush, soaring strings, France's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fresh Off the Boat | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

In the Freshman backfield there are a half a dozen prospects who could be bidding for Varsity spots next season. Top among these are Captain Carroll Lowenstein and Bob Ray. Lowenstein, the squad's diminutive quarterback, comes from Huntington Prep where he learned plenty about bullseye passing and field generalship...

Author: By Doug Fouquet, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

A scant two weeks before the end of the political campaign the Student Council has emerged with a temporary set of rules for rallies and other open meetings. By the time University Hall has checked the regulations, and by the time that the Colege organizations that asked for them have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Rules | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

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