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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When American "educators" proceed to draw a this line, between intellectual error and "surrender of intellectual integrity," canonization proceedings may be in order. But I doubt it. Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Canonization . . . Alien Curiosity' | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

Only a few of his friends and fellow-students know of Atkinson's studying at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atkinson Graduates | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...there's also a human being, Sorrowful Jones, the bookie, reacting to everything around him. It's good, moreover, because Lucille Ball Jerks tears with her smile of love and because the moppet, Mary Jane Sanders, carries off some of the Runyonesque color better than her elders would know how. In sports, "Sorrowful Jones" is sentimental to a fault; in spots, too, it's ridiculous. But Hope and Runyon are mixed in just the right proportions to make a great comedy...

Author: By Edward C. Moley, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

Seniors today face several blocks to achieving that inner peace, he added, such as "the massive materialism of our country. . . . George Santayana paid us the compliment of saying that if he looked into the heart of a man and did not find kindness there he would know he was not an American. But our yard-sticks are patterned to measure things rather than ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sperry Speaks at Radcliffe Services | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...Hoover has absolutely no basis for attacking the second statement. The names of the frightened and suspicious young men were omitted to protect them. Since Mr. Hoover does not know who they are, how can he claim to know their suspicions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

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