Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They're sick unto nausea at the caliber of leadership they are told to follow. . . . Sick of being talked down to. ... Sick of not being given credit for knowing there is a job to be done, a willingness to do it and a rather intelligent idea about how to...
When Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels was hard pressed for clerical workers just before the U.S. entered World War I, he gave his legal advisers a knowing look: forthwith they decided that a yeoman need not be male. This led to 11,275 yeomanettes in the U.S., France,
¶ Were the subject of a great experiment: "The future of Anglo-American relations now for the first time in history is in the hands of the people. Knowing the great heartiness and generosity of our people, I look forward with confidence to the outcome of this great experiment"-Anthony...
Speaking of Wagner, Columbia has signed Melchior up, and just released his first recorded attempt at "Otello." The album comprises the monologue and death scene, along with Rienzi's prayer, and the song from the second act of "Tristan" beginning "O Koenig." These records show that he is the only...
The popular belief is that the lemmings' persistent dash to death is an instinctive longing for their former home in the sunken continent of Atlantis. But, notes Elton, the lemmings also surge eastward into the Baltic, northward into the Arctic. Not the whither but the whence, says Elton, explains...