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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alicia had been forced to do it without benefit of the habit-forming comic strips that helped popularize the Daily News. But she had another asset: her newspaper know-how learned at her father's knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captain's Daughter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...average symptom-free period rose to a little over ten months; two patients have gone four years, nine months without ulcers; 40% for 2½ years; 17% got no better. His work, Dr. Ivy says, is still "research in progress," not yet a proved cure. He still does not know just what there is in enterogastrone that makes it work. He is now giving it by mouth (14 to 28 pills a day) as well as by injection (six shots a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones for Ulcers | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...when the chairman of the trustees announced Miss Mac's decision to resign-effective whenever a suitable replacement could be lined up for the job. Said Miss Mac in her letter of resignation: "I recommend [the presidency] with unrestrained enthusiasm . . . as stimulating and important as any position I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss Mac Steps Down | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Force, the weather is of great and far-reaching concern. A strategic air fleet, taking off for destination X, will need to know what weather to expect 5,000 miles and 20 hours ahead. Last week the Air Force acquired one of the world's leading meteorologists, Dr. Sverre Petterssen of M.I.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air Weather Man | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...crowed, which was overwhelmingly pre-Dewey, didn't know exactly what to make of all this bubbling and gurgling and sat in puzzled silence throughout most of it. Only twice did they respond during the speech and when Dewey had finished the enthusiasm, in marked contrast to what it had been when he came in, was perfunctory and lasted less than a minute...

Author: By Kenneth S. Lynn g, | Title: The Arena Waltz | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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