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Word: knowin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a pretty hopeless drunkard since he was 18. In sober intervals, he managed to succeed as a poet and novelist. Married twice, he had sacrificed both devoted women, in turn, to his love for liquor. All the usual treatments had failed: psychiatry, mental hospitals, sanitariums, Alcoholics Anonymous. Knowin, that he was on the verge of insanity, and terrified by his hallucinations, he took a job as attendant in a mental hospital. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad Man | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Pappy Billy. Cordell Hull, a Tennessean by birth, bone, breeding and background, comes from Middle Tennessee, but the whole State takes pride in him. Nevertheless, around Star Point, where he was born, the saying is that "Cord Hull is the knowin'est man in the world-but he warn't never a match for his pappy." Pappy Billy Hull was indeed pretty much in a class by himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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