Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negligible Bit. The hardest wallops came in the Sunday Times from a critic Britons have heard for 45 years. Gruff old (80) Ernest Newman first wanted to know "What is a festival's work?" Is its virtue, he asked, "a quality inherent in it" or does its virtue come "merely from the fact that on a particular day [a piece] is performed some hundreds of miles from where we live...
...much about children as Chaucer' . . . and suspicious statistics." A "family-living" course in a Michigan high school, for instance, was credited with having cut the divorce rate among graduates, yet the life-adjustment "revolution" was only four years old. "How early do [they] marry?" Doyle wanted to know...
...know the value of good books ... of Latin, and algebra . . . may be forgiven if we sometimes show just a little irritation when the 'traditional' subjects are made the scapegoat, by implication at least...
About one-third of all U.S. table salt is now iodized, but many housewives in iodine-poor areas suspect iodized salt (clearly labeled, under federal regulations) of being "medicated." Millions more do not know that they, and more particularly their children, cannot be healthy without iodine-which modern technology first took out of their salt, and is now able to put back...
...accomplished posturing of an actress, floated Lisa Fonssagrives. There was Lisa in a little black moire number (by Jacques Fath); there was Lisa invitingly recumbent in a black lace and taffeta ensemble (by Janet Taylor); there was Lisa wistfully bored in tulle, for McCallum stockings ("You just know she wears them"). Thin, slightly bony, gowned and groomed with superhuman perfection, she was undeniably beautiful, but in her pictures a bit distant and ethereal, and not altogether real...