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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from now on, you understand, I must use my own vocabulary." Then he began: "As for the imperialist-fascist Western powers attempting to spread their poison within these freedom-loving democracies . . ." Says Low: "At that juncture you either abandon your line of questioning or go away, because you know the standard clichés as well as any Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Highway 31 did $68,000 worth of business last year, figures trade will be a little off this year, but not much. Said Bill: "Nobody is worrying much. It's only when you're in debt that you start worrying, and I don't know anyone who is in debt." Crop prospects are good. Said Farmer Horton: "I don't look for prices to go a whole lot lower. We're not alarmed." "Nope, things don't look too bad," echoed Mrs. Horton, shutting the door of her new $385 refrigerator and flicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Plenty in the Smokehouse | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...said he did not know an orange from an apple, nor a cat from a baby. How had he told the passage of time? "I could see the tops of trees from my window and when there were leaves and birds I knew it was summer. Then when it snowed and the trees got leaves again, I knew it was a year." The more assured he was that at last he was among people who wanted to help him, the more glibly Gerald talked. When his mother was brought before him, he shrank from her. Cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Anna Sullivan's Sin | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Must Know. The story was not quite the way Gerald said it was, but it was bad enough. Mrs. Sullivan had two sons (both now in the Marines) and a daughter. Her husband had deserted her on & off, and left her for good in 1937. In one of the intervals when he was off, she had given birth to Gerald by a man now dead. She decided that no one must ever know. She went regularly to confession, but never told her biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Anna Sullivan's Sin | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Those who know, are pretty well agreed on Lawless Miss, which brings to mind the story of two railbirds at Lincoln for The Inaugural Handicap...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

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