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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elders divided the watches of the night. How do we know that the number of night watches was an uneven one? Answer: Judges 7: 19 refers to "the middle watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Big Bible Battle | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...blues were the big city too, its tenements, its bread lines, and its cheap women sneaking out of a man's bed at midnight to steal his day's pay. When highbrow critics filed his blues under "folk music," Bill snorted: "Folk songs? I don't know what they is. I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Best of the Blues | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...know why I have such a compulsion to take pictures of boats," says Rosy Rosenfeld, a sailors' delight of a marine photographer. "Water and sky fascinate me. I have to take them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Salt-Water Photographer | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens, we do not know this to be officially true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The High Cost of Clubbing | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...backs its claim with an impressive array of tests. The argument over which to believe has interested the Federal Trade Commission and Congress. Says Congressman John A. Blatnik, chairman of a House subcommittee that investigated cigarette advertising: "There are so many claims and counterclaims that we just do not know how much tar and nicotine is involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THOSE CIGARETTE CLAIMS | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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