Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collapse. All of them-delegates, newsmen, wise guys-understood politics thoroughly. The question was: Did they understand a political movement? They shied off like wise guys, sneering: "Willkie, the Nine-Minute Wonder," "Hopson's Choice." They gave themselves comforting reasons for his upsurge-Eastern seaboard hysteria, Wall Street propaganda...
Criticizing 5,718 Philadelphia high-school seniors for not knowing Latin, Pennsylvania's Governor Arthur H.
Many were the snap answers: he is a great man, he is a menace, he is a phony. But no one knew; to his closest intimates he remained an upper-case X in an equation of variables. This in spite of the fact that the U. S. has a vast...
Last March, knowing well that the lifting of the mists in May would bring bombs, the Chinese Government undertook systematic evacuation of Chungking's population, estimated then at over 750,000. Police circulated through the city, first warning residents without domicile permits (issued after last May's terrible...
Music 1 this year has solved the problem admirably. By appointing a graduate student, not connected with the course, to give reviews it has avoided the usual pitfalls. This tutor, not knowing the contents of the exam, has been able to stress without compunction what he considers to be the...