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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaining that except for $2,000 doled out to him since his marriage last summer he has been limited to just $100 a month in living expenses since 1930, blind. British-born Radio Pianist Alec Templeton (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera} sued his parents for an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

In Phil. 10 Lewis moves into his medium. For this and his Kant course he is known. As usual, though, the lectures are slow and lack any pep-appeal. The reading is sound, interesting, but definitely difficult. And if you decide to learn all about Kant, and take Phil. 15...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Review of Humanity Concentration Continued | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

Still he wasn't quite convinced. He did know, however, that Lin Yutang was coming back to Harvard to give a lecture. While Vag had never read My Country and My People, that didn't stop him from knowing that Dr. Lin was a very great writer. He sort of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

If the Philosophy department lost Prall, the Mathematics department lost Graustein and Coolidge. Stone or Walsh may take over. Walsh's lectures are extraordinarily good, and he is also well worth knowing, and very interested in his students. Both the Birkoffs, though fine mathematicians, are bad teachers, with carelesely organized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

> Where the defense boom had hit, it hit hard. Steel production, near capacity for weeks, dropped off two points because of repairs, breakdowns, a few strikes. But orders piled up faster than ever. Detroit, knowing its days of unrestricted automaking were numbered, maintained production at an all-time February high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: To Arms | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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