Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that when I start college in 1950 I shall have to specialize. I asked myself many times if I shouldn't just become a "Nature Boy" and study life, man, behavior patterns and such, but I can't feed or keep a family on culture...
Most of you know that TIME conducts a serious and continuing program to interpret to our advertisers, the market that TIME reaches. Occasionally, as a change of pace, we tell our story via an unstatistical brochure like The Sultan's Choice, some excerpts from which are reproduced here in the hope that you will have fun with them...
...witness stand, he invited the committee to ask some 30 prominent scientists and industrialists what they thought of AEC. The joint committee itself, he said, had enough information to determine whether the program had been "incredibly mismanaged." He had told them everything they had wanted to know. He had kept no secrets from them, with one major exception: the number of bombs in the stockpile, withheld at the committee's own jittery request. Last session, AEC had sent the committee 100 letters and met with it 25 times. There were almost daily discussions between staffs of the committee...
Some things they wanted to know, Congressmen still felt, were not "relatively trivial." Congress' interest was based on a legitimate preoccupation with how more than $1 billion a year was going to be spent by an agency that was in some respects a law unto itself. Congressmen were baffled by a science too abstruse for them to comprehend. They were baffled by the need for national security on the one hand, the obvious necessity for un-hobbled scientific inquiry on the other. Beyond everything else, they were baffled by the problem of fitting absolute Government control of atomic power...
Behind the windows in Massachusetts Hall, the part-mutual operators refused to admit the race was fixed. "We don't know a thing about it," they said...