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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fibber McGee & Molly. The McGees (Jim & Marian Jordan) got their start in vaudeville, but now, Jordan says: "We're not sure we even know how to make an entrance any more. Maybe we old people can't adapt successfully to video." But they will try out for TV in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Makes Me Dizzy..." At 460 feet: "Now the fireworks are really starting...There's a creature that looks like a long pipe with a row of lights along it. I don't know what it is. The tentacles of an octopus just dragged by, showering sparks." At 1,750: "The headphones are getting cold." At 2,500: "I see a barrage of luminescent, spirally shrimp beating against the window. They seem to splash when they hit." After passing the old record: "This is an unbelievable world down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deep Dip | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...this good news, some overeager optimists crowed that the recession had reached bottom and that things were already on the upgrade. Most businessmen, eying the continued slump in department-store sales, took a "show me" attitude. They thought it would be well into the fall before anyone would know for sure whether the pickup was only a seasonal summer rise, or the start of a general upsurge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Muscle Flexing | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Last week Langs confessed: "I don't know anything about merchandising. It will take a big outfit to market this properly." If the right company answered the ad, Langs said he might turn over the gadget and just take a royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Too Big to Handle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Little Wheeler, who started the whole thing, was a "mudlark" who worked the Thames for the leavings of the tides. He didn't know much, but one of the things he knew was that the Queen was the mother of her country; motherless Master Wheeler made up his mind to see her. So past the Windsor Castle guards he slipped one foggy November night, into the castle yard, and then, startlingly, down into an open coalhole. When the grimy urchin eventually groped his way upstairs and surprised the Queen at her dinner table, she forgot her composure sufficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wheeler's Progress | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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