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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the balloons, littered beer cans and mangled bodies had all been swept up from Mem Hall floors this morning, the Yardling Smoker Committeemen stood out clearly as peers of their trade. Old grads, blase upperclassmen and burly Yard cops burbled in unison that this year's Smoker was tops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker and Fire | 5/8/1941 | See Source »

All congratulations for a fine, beautifully written tribute to Sherwood Anderson [TIME, April 7]. I don't think Sherwood ever answered his critics, though he might have. He wrote time and again about them in his letters, he professed to be insensitive to what they said, but he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

The British Admiralty announced last week that it will no longer publish weekly figures of the British merchant marine's losses-henceforth they will be issued only monthly. The reason for the change was partly to keep the Germans from knowing how effective particular attacks had been. But if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Britannia Rules the Waves | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Today, 15 years later, Gaetano Salvemini is a member of the Harvard Faculty. His prophecies concerning the danger of totalitarianism have been brought home to an American public which once spoke in tolerant fashion of European Fascists. As a result, Dr. Salvemini has gained the reputation of knowing whereof he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALVEMINI ACCUSES BUSINESS OF TOTALITARIAN FAVORITISM | 4/22/1941 | See Source »

Half the fun of The Devil and Miss Jones is in sharing Charles Coburn's secret while unknowing shoe clerks push him around. The other half comes from the lightsome little comedy itself, which bubbles along without a hitch under the knowing hand of Director Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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