Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of a brilliant mathematician or a deep metaphysical thinker. Nicholson himself takes a simpler view. "People are too sophisticated about art," he told a correspondent last week. "They look for hidden meanings. The fact is my six children laugh at my knowledge of mathematics and I know nothing at all about metaphysics. A painter should paint, not theorize. Of course," he added with a twinkle, "it's extremely interesting when a really intelligent man comes along and explains to you what you've been doing...
...lawyers, brags that he has not yet paid a judgment (though his attorneys' fees are huge). He will work for hours to make an item libel-proof, or to tone down the libel until it is not worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay in business. "But when someone shows me I'm wrong," he says, "I retract in a hurry." If he is sure...
Adams graduated from Harvard in 1858, and returned to the Yard as a professor in 1870. Though he did not know it, and would probably have been scandalized to hear it, he was teaching in what has since come to be regarded as the beginning of Harvard's golden age. Last week, present-day readers could catch a little of the shine of that era through a new book by onetime Harvard Lecturer Rollo Walter Brown (Harvard Yard in the Golden...
...pain in his father's foot. His father, a doctor, suffered from metatarsalgia (a pain between instep and toes). His medical colleagues did him no good, but an oldtime chiropodist helped him. Said Lewi's father: "Maurice, someday it may be your opportunity to let the doctors know the value of foot care." That was in 1876, when Maurice was a medical student...
...thing we know . . . best is how to run a cash & carry business." There are no charge accounts or sales slips, no alterations or deliveries in Nathan ("Ned") Ohrbach's book on how to run a clothing store. If a dress is not sold in ten days, Ned knocks it down to cost; after another week he cuts it to half the cost (but seldom has to). Last year his two Ohrbach's, Inc. stores - on Manhattan's shrill 14th Street, and in Newark, N.J. - made a handsome profit of $1,500,000 on close to $40 million...