Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This playing "behind" and "ahead" of the beat is the difference between "all the colored boys" having rhythm and "all of the white boys" not having it. It's not a question of having it: it's a question of knowing what to do with it, once you've set...
The Crimson defense operated smoothly in the second period and veteran goalie Vint Freedley again and again warded off St. Nicks Attacks. As much as any other member of the team, Freedley, with his natural ability of knowing when to come out from the cage, deserved credit for Hodder's...
Deepest effect of Britain's blockade of German exports-formal proclamation of which was delayed until the neutrals had sounded off-will be much like the trade-hampering effect of the U. S. cash-&-carry law, but working in reverse. Customers will certainly not take title to goods ordered...
A big problem at Reed, a progressive college that goes in heavily for the arts and social studies, is to get enough football players for a team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football...
-John Kieran, omniscient sports columnist for the New York Times; grumpish F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams), old-school New York Post columnist "who can't remember a thing that's happened in the last ten years, but remembers everything before that"; glib Oscar Levant, composer, super-pianist...