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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vag was stuffed full of articles he'd been reading lately about Labor. He'd read one about Labor and National Defense that had seemed rather nasty--it quoted several Congressmen as urging "concentration camps" for certain "unpatriotic" labor leaders who wouldn't "cooperate." ... He'd heard Alfred Sloan and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

The methods and the tactics which made this possible were last week becoming apparent. They could be summed up in one military moral : the Greek Army knew how to use what it had. For example, it is said that one bomb tipped the scale at Corizza. Knowing that Italian reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Surprise No. 6 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

But the nimble Italians were not scot free. Fairey Swordfish torpedo planes and Blackburn Skua dive bombers went whirring after them from the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, far in the rear of the British formation. These plunged and plopped their projectiles at the escapists, while their fighter escorts took on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Nightmare Nostrum | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Pre-Vitamin Days. Many a thoughtful man wonders how his ancestors got along without knowing about vitamins. Answer: They did not get along very well. Professor Cummings points out that although they ate huge quantities of pork, corn and a sprinkling of game, they were, on the average, smaller and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Grandfather Ate | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Elimination of Air Marshal Boyd probably meant little or no delay in Britain's follow-up of her great naval coup at Taranto last fortnight, when Fleet Air Arm fliers knocked holes in half of Italy's battle line, or in new British pressure on Marshal Graziani'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Prize Catch | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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