Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument was that ... no insect which passes through the larva, nymph and imago cycle of life has ever . . . been able to pass on any experience to its progeny. All that such insects know is known absolutely perfectly by an instinct which must be the result of creation...
...Know Thyself. In San Francisco, Parolee Malcolm D. Howard, hauled off to jail after his sixth burglary, muttered to police: "I don't know why I do these things...
News is made not by "forces" or governments or classes, but by individual people. The world's movers and shakers, said [TIME'S original'] prospectus, are "something more than stage figures with a name. It is important to know what they drink. It is more important to know, to what gods they pray and what kind of fights they love." Stories told in flesh & blood terms would get into the readers' minds when stories told in journalistic banalities would...
Unavailing was the argument of the Senate economizers that there was plenty of logic in the measure: only the department involved could know enough about itself to know where it could economize. A majority present (49 to 28) voted for the economy resolution. But because a two-thirds majority is necessary to suspend the rules (writing legislation into an appropriation bill is against the rules), the resolution died...
...point, when Senator McCarthy asked him if Fixer John Maragon had ever given him campaign contributions from Racket King Frankie Costello, Vaughan did a double take, which would have been a credit to Comedian Oliver Hardy. "Am I supposed to. know Frankie Costello?" he asked. "I have heard of people named Costello . . . May I ask, who is 'Frank Costello...