Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First they compared what happened when the patient tried to swallow with what happens when a normal person swallows. Because ordinary X-ray movies were too fast, the doctors slowed them down to 60 a second. They found out what they wanted to know: one reason their patient was choking was that he could not raise his Adam's apple. But how to get his swallowing mechanism working again...
Momentarily, Coaltown had stolen the thunder of his famed stablemate, Citation, who was in his stall convalescing from an ankle ailment. But one man, shrewd Ben Jones, insisted that Coaltown still belonged in Citation's shadow. Said Trainer Ben, who knows all there is to know about both horses: "Citation would have whipped him if he had been in there . . . Citation can catch any horse...
Like everyone else, Congress' Joint Committee on the Economic Report wanted to know what was happening to the U.S. economy. Did rising unemployment and falling commodity prices mean a recession? Or would it be just a temporary letdown? Last week the committee called in economists, unionists, farm leaders and businessmen to find out. Among them was Economist A.D.H. Kaplan of the Brookings Institution, who had an economic explanation that everyone could understand...
Rank & file U.S. movie exhibitors may not care much about cinematic art for its own sake, but they know what they want from Hollywood. Last week the exhibitors drew some conclusions from their box-office receipts. After polling its exhibitor-members across the nation, the Allied States Association announced: Hollywood's pictures (and advertising) have been truckling to the tastes of "sophisticated Broadway audiences" and "professional reviewers," and run a serious risk of becoming "class entertainment...
What Harrison claims to know is that the admirable Captain Kelway is dealing with the enemy. This is incredible in a man like Kelway, who was wounded at Dunkirk and has responsible duties at the War Office. But Harrison is clever; the drop of suspicion that he injects remains to corrode a happy love affair...