Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With her windows looking out over Plymouth Sound, Lady Astor could not help knowing that a convoy had just arrived. The port was ship-filled, and the freighters were freshly warped in to un load their instruments of defense. It was these ships and the docks and the warehouses after...
Captain White's remarks, directed to Lapointe, netted him a sound spanking from Minister of National Defense James Layton Ralston, plus whatever satisfaction there was in knowing that he was the first to debate openly a subject that sooner or later Canada must bring out into the open.
Last week Nelson Rockefeller's men were still busy talking to the U. S. companies which had pro-Nazi agents in Latin America. Some changes, with or without Rockefeller prompting, have already been made. Socony-Vacuum's former Monterrey manager, Herr Wilhelm Giesecke (a regular caller at the...
He attacked the progressivists for continually telling their pupils "the whys" and the advocates of the older system for teaching them the "mystic doctrine of obedience," and insisting that everything "is none of your business." He questioned the advisability of knowing everything.
For all that she is one of the few U. S. writers who give evidence of knowing a) precisely what they want to do, and b) precisely how to do it.