Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although she made her first movie 14 years ago, and has since done some skilled acting (Gone With the Wind, Hold Back the Dawn, To Each His Own-which won her the Academy Award in 1947), few people in or out of Hollywood know very much about Olivia de Havilland. "Livvie" has long been the subject of much amateur psychoanalysis among her friends and acquaintances...
Hitched to the omnirange is another pilot-comforter: the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment). If the pilot wants to know how far he is from a certain omnirange, he turns on a transmitter that sends out a coded signal. When this reaches the omnirange, a repeater answers like an echo. An automatic device on the plane measures the time between the signal and the echo. It turns this interval into the distance in miles and "displays" it on a dial. This gives the pilot a perfect "fix." He knows his direction and distance from the omnirange. Therefore he knows exactly where...
...most of his 56 years with his head in the clouds. He has accomplished a lot up there. "The ionosphere," a colleague once said of Sir Edward, "is his playground." He proved the theory that the earth is circled by electrically charged layers in the upper atmosphere, came to know more about them than any man alive (there is an Appleton layer, usually about 140 miles above the earth*). His researches made possible the development of radar, won him a knighthood and the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics...
...present-day editors are no longer as sure as they (and their fathers) were that they know what news is. In the past 15 years, the outlines of the definition have both blurred and broadened...
Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard thought not. Last week its "Londoner's Diary" complained: "It is now over three weeks since the birth of Princess Elizabeth's son. Only a favored few* know what he looks like or how he is progressing . . . Why this secrecy? The whole world is waiting to know about the baby . . . The palace authorities are ill advised." The Paris press went further; it wondered if there was anything wrong with the health of the baby to warrant such secrecy...