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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Miss Finn was turning up fresh leads of her own in New York City. She learned that Dennis' only sister, Nora, now married to a musician, was living in New York. But she did not know her married name. With the help of a single address at which Nora had once lived in Queens, a reverse telephone directory (which lists telephone numbers by addresses), and some luck, she got Nora on the phone. An hour later they were talking together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Senate Office Building lies a dismal little thoroughfare named Schott's Alley. Its huddled brick houses have no plumbing, heat or electricity. In summer, the stench of its outdoor privies drifts through the open windows of the apartment building where many Senate secretaries live. But few Senators know that it exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Inspection Trip | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Senators had wanted to know the size of the bill before buying the Atlantic pact itself. Now that the tab was face up, Congress was more relieved than alarmed. Even Georgia's closefisted Democrat Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, seemed ready to go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Tab | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...street was thronged with shopping housewives, suits moved briskly off the rack; at Nick Maloof's restaurant ("where the elite meet the dawn") business was fine. Said Austin O'Toole, owner of the town's biggest market: "These people aren't on pork & beans. You know the first thing we sold out today? Lobster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: The Staggers | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...likewise there stand the Riders; and thou shalt know them by their exceeding hunger and by their legs, which go only a short way before touching the ground; but thous shalt heed them...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

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