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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disk jockey who stayed on the job for 200 hours without any sleep? Sure it was a sort of pressagent stunt. But medical researchers are hard to intimidate. They'll go to any unlikely place to get at the facts, and they wanted to learn more-they already know a little -about what happens to a man's mind and body when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...with the literary upper crust. There was in fact only one unbeliever in the crowd, one William Haskins, instructor in English at Northwestern University. Demanded Corso: "Man, why are you knocking the way I talk? I don't knock the way you talk. You don't know about the hollyhocks." Replied Haskins: "If you're going to be irrelevant, you might as well be irrelevant about hollyhocks." Countered Corso: "Man, this is a drag. You're nothing but a creep-a creep! But I don't care. I can still laugh and I can still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Fried Shoes | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

According to Silverman, Truman is still working on arrangements for a stay at the University and will let the two organizations know if such plans materialize. It is fairly definite, however, that Truman will not make the trip until late in the term, if at all, Leary said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman Visit Meets Delay | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

Cafeteria operation with a wide selection of food will be included in the recommendations, Stewart said. "Some days if you know one item on the menu, you can guess the whole meal," he added. "This survey will answer many questions that have come up in the past," remarked Carle T. Tucker, Director of the Dining Hall Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harkness Report To Ask Changes | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

...ambitious youngster, "Nosey," who "wants to be an artist," and a bitter but affectionate Irish barmaid. To this latter Jimson tries to explain his art: "Look at that figure, Cokey. Feel it with your eyes. First see the lines, then the colors..." To which she replies, "All I know, Mr. Jimson, is that no self respecting woman would let herself be painted like that." There is also a soft but deceitful matron, to whom Jimson was once married, and a Lord and his wife whose wall Jimson must have to paint his great panorama of the rising of Lazarus...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Horse's Mouth | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

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