Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly the new Mets are a far cry from that congeries of castoffs, has-beens and never-would-bes who made their debut in 1962 by losing a record 120 games?and learned to laugh about it. To today's brassy Wunderkinder, those days are ancient history. Says Manager Hodges...
For all that, Seaver was very nearly overshadowed last year by Jerry Koosman, a gangling (6 ft. 3 in., 205 Ibs.), grinning pitcher who learned to throw the ball in the family barn, has a brother named Orville and says things like "I haven't had this much fun since...
From whom else could pre-mechamcal civilizations have learned to move the stones for the pyramids or the Mayan cities or the great carved heads of Easter Island? After all, asks Däniken, are not the legends of many lands filled with stories of godlike visitors from the sky...
Science-fiction writers have long enjoyed developing similar themes. Nelson Bond, in a short story called The Cunning of the Beast, published in 1942 told about a weak-bodied, high-minded scientist named the Yawa Eloem who tried to create intelligent animals to serve his fellow academicians on the distant...
One day, while making a sketch of the superstructure of an iron-ore mine, he learned that it would be torn down in a matter of days and hustled off to get a camera to photograph it. When he saw the prints, he decided that sketching was futile. "These things...