Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the leaders of the nation have learned from the past that the economy of our nation is partially dependent on the purchasing power of the farmer, and are more concerned with national welfare than with vote-getting . . .
No one is more entitled to a final comment on this book than Florence Arfmann, who has tested every recipe in it. Says she: "These women were as eager to exchange favorite recipes as good housewives have been since time began. And when you try their recipes, I think you...
In his 29 years at Boston's corruption-laced City Hall, City Clerk John B. Hynes had learned something about running a big city and plenty about how not to run one. He had most of the necessary equipment for political success in Boston (he was Irish, Catholic and...
At one point a rumor spread that the learned judges were thinking of ordering a bathing-suit parade for their own eyes alone. Following the maxim expressed by one woman, "Never trust old gentlemen who are not too old," several mothers of contestants turned to Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara for...
Beyond these matters, Hutchins' chief interests are his old ones. He is helping to sponsor a project, with Mortimer Adler at its head, to compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as...