Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enough's Enough. In Milwaukee, police asked James Beard to explain how he came to be stalking down the street with a telephone cord and receiver hanging around his neck, learned that Beard had been given one wrong number too many.
He learned to get along. In making his official courtesy call on the commanding officer of a new post, he always saw to it that the officer was out at the time. Later, as a roving representative of the Inspector General's office, he always arranged his schedule to...
That the West would have a few months in which to pull up its political socks became probable last week when General Lucius Clay declared that the Berlin Airlift could be expanded and continued indefinitely (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). If it used the interval to apply the lessons it had learned...
There were also generous things, as her staff well knew. Around the office she was called "The Lady." The staff learned to be unconcerned when she drifted in, clad in slacks or riding breeches and leading a poodle or when she called at midnight to order a Page One makeover...
In St. Petersburg in the winter, Igor loved to prowl among the operatic scores of his father, Feodor, a famed basso who was Chaliapin's predecessor at the Imperial Opera. Young Igor was given a "piano mistress" at nine, quickly learned to read music-and improvise. His parents did...