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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never a Trotskyite, and that he sheltered Stalin's enemy merely out of kindness, "despite his political errors." Rivera's own bitterly anti-Stalin writings, he explains solemnly, were "just a trick to mislead the stockholders of Bethlehem Steel." But the Reds have reason to know that there is always one more trick in Rivera's trunk. When he applied for readmission to the party, in 1946, their response was a horrified no. "So I have no right," he says with elephantine humility, "to call myself a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...citizenry was outraged. As one cab driver put it: "We know Rivera is our greatest painter, but he hurts our feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...next play about his mother, who died recently. His friends supposed that here, finally, was a subject that would need no research. But Kingsley is running true to form: "My mother was a very proud and mysterious person. There's a lot I don't know about her. I'm going to have to do a little detective work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing industry cannot know, with any degree of certainty, what kind of receivers to make for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: In a Teapot | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...their bombmaking. David (No Place to Hide) Bradley, a doctor of medicine who is a tyro in atomic science, declared: "The Russians have the secret of the bomb .. . They may have the bomb." Said Nobel-Prize Physicist Arthur Compton: "Russia does not have the bomb. The Russians will not know they have it until they succeed in exploding one." Compton also said that as soon as the Russians set off a bomb, scientists the world over will know it, from radioactivity in the upper atmosphere (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Matter of Opinion | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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