Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conventionally considered, it was a good showing. Of the 58,000 chemists who might have come, 2,321 crystallized in Washington last week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. As at most large scientific conventions, the principal concern was better jobs, but the chemists listened to papers touching...
But the historians learned much from Uncle Charlie's rufflings, and from his characteristic "Now, let us examine the assumptions." And when (in his opinion) too many of his followers began to write as if all U.S. history had been "determined" by economic forces alone, he ruffled them once...
A Generation to School. Beard's influence spread beyond his colleagues, the historians. During the '20s, with his wife Mary, he wrote a brilliant and provocative survey history of the U.S., The Rise of American Civilization. The book became a standard work in U.S. schools and colleges. A...
In its original form (Patrick Hamilton's play, Rope's End) this was an intelligent and hideously exciting melodrama. It has been well adapted by Hume Cronyn, but it was probably inevitable that in turning it into a movie for mass distribution, much of the edge would be...
Some of the things Angus learned out of school he never would have found in books. They were the hundreds of tales his father knew, that had been told by the MacMillans for generations. Some of the stories took hours to tell (like the one about Warrior Fionn's...