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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Two months ago Iturbi arrived in the U. S. Sailing up Manhattan harbor, he wept. He went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Iturbi | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

At the end of Act I you are left wondering how the problem is to be solved, half hoping that it will be, yet knowing that the attainment of a god-like objectivity would first be necessary. And, sure enough, Acts II and III leave the "drame a these", and...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

As a subscriber to your paper and a member of the Jewish faith I am interested in knowing the significance of the statement, "Many a Jew."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

As everyone knows, Jews are discriminated against in many a leading U. S. country club. Knowing this not to be the case at the famed South Shore club, TIME mentioned it as of incidental news-interest. -ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

¶ Booming, bumbling Tom Shaw, one-time weaver, now War Minister, made the Parliamentary bloomer of the week. Trespassing on the fiscal preserves of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden without Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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