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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TIME'S Education editor, Allan B. Ecker, and Researcher Ruth Brine faced atomic-physicist Robert Oppenheimer for the first time, they were understandably apprehensive. In preparation for the Oppenheimer cover story (TIME, Nov. 8) they had looked over enough morgue material on him to know that his agile mind would be impatient with journalism's question & answer methods. Sure enough, at the first interview's end he remarked: "You know, if you were physicists, I'd fire you. I'm the murderer and you are lousy detectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...legal. At West Point, where the two-platoon system is well established, the offense and defense units practice on different fields, learn different sets of signals. Nobody denies that it is the most efficient way of running a football squad. What a rebellious contingent of coaches wanted to know was: where do the little schools with no reserves of manpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Production-Line Football | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...stagehands. She can quote readily, and at impressive length, from the Bible, Shakespeare, and a lavatory wall. Onstage she is gowned by famous designers (she was once called the "world's only volcano dressed by Mainbocher"). Offstage, she prefers slacks and a mink coat. Hollywood didn't know what to make of her, but London adored her for eight wild years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...seriously as an actress. But her looks were really something. Cecil Beaton called her "... A wicked archangel with . . . carven features . . . Her eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Transocean thinks there is a different remedy. It feels that the scheduled lines could get more business if they knew how to go after it. Says Nelson: "We have the know-how, [that's why] we have more business than we can handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Handyman | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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