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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this light, your quotation of Louis Armstrong's famous reply to the man who asked him to define [New Orleans] jazz, "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know," appears as a beautiful and proper non-Aristotelian rebuke to an asker of Aristotelian nonsense-question. What is jazz, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard; the British War Office and Ministry of Information; the National Film Board of Canada and other hitherto inaccessible sources suddenly made 165,000,000 feet of restricted war-film available for the project. Fortunately, MOT had the staff (120) and the know-how to cull and present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...episodes that would make dramatic use of the most valuable war film available. In the process Feldkamp found that he had a full-time research job on his hands. Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield-and elsewhere-at the same time. His reading included authentic War Department reports of battle actions, etc., and was, to say the least, extensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Coach Rene Peroy doesn't know a thing about Amherst's fencing team, but he isn't expecting much trouble when it duels his varsity swordsmen at 3 p.m. today in the Blockhouse. The Lord Jeffs have never been a power in Eastern fencing competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Figures To Give Fencers Little Competition | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

...nine-tenths of the routine red tape difficulties familiar to all veterans, there are enough left over to keep him busy six days a week. "Just when you think you've got everything caught up and running on schedule, the top blows off some new problem and before you know it the whole detail is fouled up again," he explains...

Author: By Aloyalus S. Mccabe, | Title: Faculty Profile | 3/8/1949 | See Source »

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