Word: knew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME-Reader Winston finish the story, as she recently wrote it in a letter to me: "On July 22, I wandered into an art gallery on the left bank in Paris and was attracted to some paintings by G. Sekoto. The name meant nothing to me-and I knew I had already spent more money on my trip than I had planned-but I also knew I had to have some of his paintings. I hesitated, then sacrificed some of the dresses I had bought in Paris to buy two paintings from the gallery's owner...
...skilled a congressional vote counter as Harry Truman knew that Olds had no chance. But since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
...intellectuals interested in it. University people frown on non-scholarly work and no field more than politics. A few are sincerely concerned. A young editor of the Catholic weekly in Vienna told me, "I am glad I had the Nazi experience, for I feel that only the people who knew it can understand its evil and tell others." But the tendency of the upper class youth is to shake their heads and ask, "What can I do? I'am not a socialist nor a Catholic, and they are in power...
When Professor Benjamin Wright, inaugurated yesterday as President of Smith College, decided to leave Harvard last year there were a lot of disappointed people in Cambridge. They already knew what the Smith selection committee had found out--that Professor Wright was a remarkable administrator, a fine teacher, and a man who had a real insight into educational problems...
...neither boys nor girls admitted knowing about the sweet-treatment until told of it by a CRIMSON reporter. Even Miss Alice Chignon of Medford, beautifier at George's Beauty Salon, admitted that neither she nor George knew the stuff was spiked...