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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state the case correctly when you say that the doctors are obliged to join or to starve; you must know that the sop of private practice is not a real alternative-there is practically none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...CAMPS, TALKING WITH PRISONERS OF WAR, AM ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED GUERRILLA ARMIES COMPOSED OF DIEHARD COMMUNISTS AND CRIMINAL AND LAWLESS ELEMENTS INTENT ON DESTROYING EVERYTHING GREEK WHILE THEY PILLAGE, RAPE AND PLUNDER. PATRIOTS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT LEFT GUERRILLAS WHEN GREECE WAS LIBERATED, AND COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, FOR THEY KNOW COMMUNIST AIM IS TO DESTROY GREECE, MAKE HER A COMMUNIST SATELLITE BY ESTABLISHING RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF MEDITERRANEAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Harry Truman missed no chance to let the boys know that bygones were bygones. Displaying some herniated Latin at a dinner for Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Truman mentioned the old Roman cry: "Delenda est Carthago!" (Carthage must be destroyed). Some Senators had cried "Delenda est Trumano!"-said the President, but "I am happy to say that I have no ill feeling towards those gentlemen who would like to have delenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Half-a-Loaf Harry | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Synge Street. Mrs. Lucinda Shaw has gone off on a visit to County Galway, leaving her one-year-old son George Bernard (known as "Bob") in care of his father, George Carr Shaw, co-partner in the respectable grain firm of Clibborn & Shaw. Naturally, mother Shaw wants to know exactly what catastrophes are taking place in her absence, so dutiful father Shaw picks up his pen and briefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Wealth & Very Old | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Pickens, or Stickens that his biographers have obliterated him"), Shaw devotes most of Self Sketches to correcting "what had been overlooked or misunderstood."* Sample restatements: ¶ "I have not yet ascertained the truth about myself. For instance, how far am I mad, and how far sane? I do not know." ¶ "Aunt Ellen, though humpbacked, was not a midget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Wealth & Very Old | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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