Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tate may be able to tell us why a painting of a head with two noses is better than the landlady's favorite The Bath of Psyche, by Lord Leighton." Old folks generally liked the paintings, too. Said one blackstocking: "They remind me of my youth. Besides, I know what the subject is meant to be. Can't do that with pictures nowadays." Said another: "So frightfully British . . . and I do love the cows...
Optical experts know that the 200-inch Palomar mirror, even though it works well now, can work even better after a delicate repolishing of its outer ten inches. The great telescope will not start on its real program of charting the outer universe until it is as perfect as scientific skill can make it. The world's astronomers, impatient for news from a billion light-years away, do not mind waiting a little longer...
...industries are continuing to produce at capacity." Not all businessmen were as optimistic. In the economic crosscurrents, no one was certain how great the shakeout in prices and jobs might be. But the next two months, usually marked by a spring pickup, would tell the tale. Businessmen would then know how much of the slide had been seasonal-and how much a permanent drop of the boom...
This week, Bermudez, still trying to get U.S. know-how to help his inefficient monopoly, landed a bigger fish. He signed a contract with a new company, the Mexican American Independent Co., giving it a twelve-year concession to drill wells along Mexico's tidelands near Yucatan and elsewhere. The new company was formed when Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and good friend of President Truman, joined up with Ralph K. Davies. of the American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1, 1947) and Samuel B. Mosher of California's Signal Oil & Gas Co. The new Pauley company would...
...other fields. Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, clinical director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, told them how not to act in the operating room-with specifications. Then they got another lecture from Manhattan Internist Mack Lipkin and Psychiatrist Edward Joseph, who complained that too many surgeons do not know how to handle surgery patients, anyhow...