Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progress and the outside are things we know little about, sen∼or," said a white-suited old Bolivian in Trinidad, center of a declining cattle industry. "What we have here is tranquility." He spat into a mud puddle in front of the municipalidad (city hall). "There are only six cars in all of Trinidad. We prohibit them from running when it rains. They make mudholes and get stuck. Besides, they run down our chickens and pigs...
...down before the authorities. And yet, after all, in the Middle Ages artists lived under the dogma of the church and felt relatively free. It is possible-is it possible?-for an artist to function within a frame of philosophy .whose limits cannot be transcended ... I don't know...
Washington correspondents know smart, stocky James Arthur Wechsler as one of the ablest reporters in the capital. But his name was well down on the totem pole of the New York Post Home News (circ. 380,000); he was one of two "associates" to Washington Bureau Chief Charles Van Devander. Last week, at 33, Jimmy Wechsler slid all the way up the pole to the editorship...
Robert Salau was born about 42 years ago on densely wooded Vella Lavella, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal in the Solomons group. His mother had been captured by his father's head-hunting tribe in a raid on another island. ("My people heathen, you know-killing one another.") When the Adventists set up a school in the beach village, young Salau ran away from home to join, and eventually became a pastor. Now, he estimates he has had a hand, in converting some 2,000 natives in the Pacific islands. Says Salau...
Good Old A.T. & T. Of the seniors interviewed by FORTUNE, only 2% planned to go into business for themselves. "The men of '49 every where seem haunted by the fear of a recession. 'I know A.T. & T. might not be very exciting,' explains a senior . . . 'but there'll always...