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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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At least to some people who get the opportunity of seeing and knowing the collegian of today, he is improving in some respects. It has been said that a century ago the college student was looked up to; fifty years later he was admired; twenty-five years ago he was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

"It is the responsibility of education to scan the far horizon; it is the obligation of education, if need be, to undergo attack, to accept contempt, and to endure derision from contemporaries who are more interested in maintaining their own opinions than they are in knowing what is really so...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

In TIME, Nov. 21, 1927, p. 27, under the heading "Manuscripts" you told of the recent finding of a manuscript play by Oscar Wilde, or as you called him, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. The matter I wish to speak about is extremely small, but, knowing TIME'S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Rockefeller | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Last of the Soong sisters is Meiling, Wellesley '15. Like her brother, T. V. Soong, Harvard '15, she has been closely identified with the Hankow Nationalist Government in which he was Finance Minister. In person she is charming, in mentality alert, in speech sometimes caustic. Observers, knowing her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Soong Sisters | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Before long, Mrs. Elliot became an invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Avarice House | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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