Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Internment of the Japanese in danger spots on the Coast was necessary precaution; the Army had no way of knowing, and no time to spare in discovering, who among them were spies and saboteurs. But as the loyalty of individual members of that group became apparent, it became equally obvious...
In brief, the Government's munitions-plant expansion program had been too successful. Not knowing exactly what would be needed, it tried to make lavish provisions for everything. Instead, it got the inevitable mess.
Noodling the Newspapers. Maury Paul, a kinsman of the Philadelphia Biddles, broke in as a society reporter on Frank Munsey's Philadelphia Times in 1914. He soon moved on to Munsey's New York Press. Knowing nothing then of Manhattan society, he filled out a glowing story on...
> In case Army or Navy refuse information, the press can appeal to him informally and maybe he will put up an argument with the services. Knowing Elmer, newsmen thought he would.
"While we were operating after the bombing-I had four operating tables going at once with nurses finishing the operations after I had done the most essential part, and Koi [one of the nurses] operating on her own-General Stilwell came in and watched us without our knowing he was...