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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good freaks any more. Seems like they're all dying off." Lew agrees. "They take 'em and put 'em in an institution now," he moans. "They don't went 'em exposed. Now I ain't going to mention any names, but I know an insane asylum where there's three good pinheads right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...those people had never seen anything like it. But they've all seen it on TV now. The rubes and the suckers are playing golf now. Oh, I don't say there aren't some rubes left, but where they are I don't know. Sometimes I think the only real suckers left are in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...there was given unto him a great sword"). Hoover points out that in more than 20 different kinds of disasters and punishments mentioned in Revelation, pestilence does not occur once. St. John, he thinks, "had some other idea in mind" for the red horseman −"the name which we know in modern times as Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Red Horseman | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

What then makes the comparison meaningful, if the odds are so even? "There is one last general argument," he goes on, and "if I were choosing, it would be decisive ... It is simply that here we know our audience. In America the writers don't really know whom they are writing for-apart from their fellow writer-scholars." In England, "Mr. Macmillan, Mr. Butler, Mr. Gaitskell are all deeply read men, interested in contemporary work; so are a good sprinkling of other members of the House. That would also be true of a surprisingly high proportion of civil servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Audience for Decision | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...moved in with the cousin, enrolled at McGill University law school. After finishing up the regular three-year course, stayed on for a postgraduate year before going back to Philadelphia and bluffing his way through the Pennsylvania bar exam. "I had to bluff," he says. "I didn't know anything about Pennsylvania law." A fellow lawyer of the 1920s recalls Goren as "brilliant," but no one could prove it by Lawyer Goren himself. In his 13 years of practice, he never made more than $5,000 a year. "I didn't give up the law," says Goren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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