Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many U.S. citizens are concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has good reason to know - the public gets disputing mad about it. The gallery's biennial shows of current U.S. painting invariably cause a loud outcry of outrage...
...young waitress by mail, wins her by submitting his youthful foreman's photograph in place of his own. Though resentful of being tricked, she goes through with the marriage, only to sin with the foreman. The husband finds out, but reason prevails over melodrama because all three know what they really want-the Italian a wife, the girl a good home, the foreman his freedom...
...coming to dinner and who wasn't, Bishop Oxnam released his letter accepting the award. Wrote he: "I count this a high honor . . . The Churchman has stood courageously and creatively for our Christian faith and likewise for our democratic principles. In such an hour . . . it is good to know that there are really fearless journals that believe in liberty enough to stand resolutely...
What he did not explain was that the "tipster" was his own tipster, and that he had printed the first item without even bothering to check the Mayor's license plate. Only readers with good memories would know that the second item was a correction of Winchell's month-old mistake...
After 34 years on college faculties, Dean Harry J. Carman of Columbia had to admit his distress. Last week at a Manhattan meeting of educators, he spelled it out: too few college professors and instructors know how to teach. He conceded that, as a class, college faculty members know a lot about a lot of things; but too many of them are "departmental-minded" people, who are "without ability to inspire...