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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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You may be interested in knowing me ES the person Mose Simms alluded to last autumn when he boasted "only one paying customer" on his football team. You see, I had the gall to come to St. Mary's without ever having heard of Mose Simms, and reported for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

St. Louis newspapermen looked knowing last week as they read the official announcement that the Star-Times's Managing Editor Frank W. Taylor was quitting after 32 years "to take a well-earned rest." They knew that big (6 ft. 3), bellowing, brilliant, 53-year-old Editor Taylor, rated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor Out | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Off & on for twelve years a journalist in the Orient, Ernest O. Hauser has not been content to meet the East over a Scotch & soda in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. He has dug his way deep into the mysteries of Oriental temperament. Honorable Enemy is a knowing and compassionate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Inscrutable Scrutinized | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Democrats promptly joined with Republicans and Isolationists in ripping his bill to shreds. Missouri's Short wanted to know who would "assume the responsibility for the robbery and the rape and murder that might be committed." New York's Isolationist Ham Fish offered an amendment (defeated) to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Blackout for Washington | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

The attackers used officers with phony papers, parachutists, soldiers in mufti, even pretty girls to spy, to confuse the defenders, to carry out specific missions. ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) glamor girls gathered in hotel lounges and went to work on officers-and reported back to headquarters indiscretions both by "Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Invasion Preview | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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