Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For this reason, there has long been doubt that the U. S. Navy could ever force a decisive battle with the Japanese except in areas where it would be at serious disadvantage. For normally the Japanese, knowing the inferior weight of their fleet, would be careful to keep out of...
Starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, Sewall followed the tracks of a huge elephant, knowing the size of the animal because its height is exactly twice the circumference of its footprint. In the middle of the afternoon he caught sight of his prey in ten foot elephant grass...
Nations allied themselves with nations to destroy other nations, knowing that once their task was completed they would turn on their allies, even as Britain and France had turned on each other.
City for Conquest, like We Who Are Young (TIME, Sept. 30), borrows this technique to point up the clamoring struggle for existence which supposedly typifies Manhattan. This time Philosopher Craven wears a beard and the shaggy rags of a stumblebum, wanders in and out of the lives of the characters...
"But because I could write poetry, a man by the name of Stever Woods-he was in charge of the scenic department-he would paint my sets without anybody knowing it, because he wanted me to write poetry about certain people that he went out and got drunk with. . . . This...