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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jim learned a lot about transportation, just the same, as he shuttled from railroading to one small trucking job after another, and he spent his spare time and money on books-the Bible, Shakespeare, and everything he could get on transport. By the time he had reached middle age, ambitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Dead End | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

A Fight in a Bus. Last spring General Revers was sent to investigate the French colonial war against the Communists in Indo-China. On his return he wrote a 60-page report to the government in which he made adverse comments on France's conduct in Indo-China. Somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

It was a deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The 1st U.S. Marine Division was the first U.S. division to take the offensive in War II. It went into the boondocks as a brigade in the fall of 1940 and did not come out until it licked the Japanese at Guadalcanal two years later. Between times the division learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

CRIMSON "share-the-shower" plans went down the drain last night when editors learned that their campaign to bring bathless New York college girls to Harvard tubs might be considered a violation of the Mann Act.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers Splash Cold Water On Crimson's Bathtub Plan | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

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