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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference called to explain his actions, Rocky gave a convincing demonstration of a man who didn't know what hit him. Why had he quit training? "I had no ambition to throw punches. I'm boxing a couple of salamis and I don't give a damn if I get hit ... I don't know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rocky Y. 47 States | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...patients with Buerger's disease also have acute or chronic epidermophytosis (fungus diseases of the skin like washerwomen's itch or athlete's foot). The disease occurs most frequently between the ages of 20 and 45 (the King will be 53 Dec. 14). Doctors do not know why, but men victims outnumber women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: His Majesty's Foot | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Editor Martha Stout had a different reason. "None of those boys knew a thing about publishing," she said bitterly. "It's pretty tough these days even for publishers who know what they're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 90-Day Wonder | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...boys gave Irey's planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything is businesslike. Take The Enforcer [Gunman Frank Nitti]; he keeps everybody in line for Al. Somebody gets out of line, Al tells The Enforcer, the next thing you know a couple of guys get off a train from Detroit or New York or St. Louis, and The Enforcer tells them who has to go. The guys do the job and go home. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Elmer Did | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...winners the first six days. People began betting on him rather than on the horses he rode. One Baltimore paper carried a special box, listing Picou's mounts for the day. By last week he had become so well known that the New York Daily Mirror headlined: "YOU KNOW WHO" WINS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bug Boy | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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