Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four months ago, after a squabble with his imperious boss, he had left the paper, but had stayed on as her personal fiscal adviser until shortly before her death. Then, six weeks ago, he had learned that a codicil to Cissie Patterson's will had cut him out of...
Wide-open football has been a relative stranger to the Harvard grid scene. But once the fundamentals of the single-wing are learned, and precision has been acquired, the type of football magic which made Michigan a great drawing card can be expected in the Stadium.
The first of your four years will be the most confused. There is never enough time to do everything you have planned. By your sophomore year, however, you should have learned to separate the important from the unimportant activities--and thus to cut the right corners. You will find that...
French ballet glowed dimly under Napoleon, who wasn't much interested (although he took a troupe with him to Egypt). But when Czar Paul asked for a ballet master to teach his gawky but willing subjects, Paris taught St. Petersburg to shine. Now, in its "old age," Paris'...
Since it first started selling books to U.S. nurseries, New York's Simon & Schuster, Inc. has learned to respect their buying power. In six years S. & S. sold some 75 million children's Golden Books (they come in four different sizes, sell from 25? up), made them the...