Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernst Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin, visiting in New York, reassured the West that "We in Berlin never talk of war. We know there will be no war . . . Our common aim is only peace." However, "we live much too near the Soviet paradise to want to be incorporated...
...liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives of our own day and slaves to its attendant delusions...
...respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right. You've hit the nail on the head.' Next thing you know, the whole room is full of Senators working like mad to help Paul Hoffman solve his problems...
...heart ailment within twelve months. She had sold out her personal-loans business, allotted part of her money to charity and part to her married daughter-and still had a substantial stake left over. Said Mrs. H., who insisted that her identity be kept secret: "I want to know how to spend it to get the most pleasure...
...Abraham Rattner, landscape and genre painter Paul Sample, and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4). Together they had spent a day in Manhattan and another in Washington, rejected close to 1,000 pictures (including some by top-notch artists) at each stop. What, Miss Genauer wanted to know, had been their basis of judgment...