Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When big, friendly Businessman James Bruce checked in last year as U.S. ambassador at Buenos Aires, he had high hopes that the U.S. could do business with Argentina. He learned a little Spanish, hit it off so well with President Juan Peron that the two were soon back-slapping each...
Being well coached, he never caused an "incident"; he learned to touch his cap and be deferential to white people. He used the "for colored" entrances at stations, drank out of Jim Crow fountains, sat in Jim Crow parks and rode Jim Crow taxis, saw (and resented) many a town...
More Glamor. To many an old-school Latin teacher, the idea was heresy. Vergil, they said, was much too difficult, too full of poet's irregularities. Besides, boys at least, liked to read about wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains...
Having smashed 24 bones and lost a leg on the race track, Bronco Bill Schindler at 39 has learned to temper daring with discretion. Now president of the American Racing Drivers Club, which controls about 375 chauffeurs, he is a leading advocate of stricter racing rules, better machines, four-wheel...
But precisely when things seemed worst, people began to pull themselves together. Tarrou organized a group of volunteers to combat the plague. Rambert, on the eve of his escape, chose to remain and fight; he had learned that in such times "it may be shameful to be happy by oneself...