Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more talent than training: she was never a dean like Vassar's President Sarah Blanding or Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride. But ever since her childhood, when she tried to tag after her two older brothers and sister as they marched off to school, she seemed to know what she wanted to do next. "She was always pretty," says her brother Alfred. "She always had brains, and she could always take care of herself...
...also a loose-jointed exposition of the wonders of Author Salter's own specialty, behavioristic psychology. Freud's followers, says Salter, waste their patients' time (and money) on an interminable dredging of the past. Salter is confident that he can find out all he needs to know about a patient's past in a few minutes, and can usually cure him in as few as six easy lessons (for $1,000 or more...
President Truman's Point Four program for developing backward nations has been discussed at high policy levels for months. But it was not till last week that two congressional committees brought the talk down to earth. From spokesmen for U.S. business, which was expected to supply the know-how and capital for the program, the committees got some plain talk on what was needed to make the program work...
...Hollywood, an oilman quipped: "When you see a group of movie people talking on the set, you don't know whether they're discussing an oil well or a movie...
...into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what you're doing. The stars . . . don't know enough about the business...