Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without yet knowing what was afoot, British vessels encountered Germans at two points far apart. In the Skagerrak a British submarine torpedoed the German transport Rio de Janeiro giving the first alarm that something serious was afoot (TIME, April 15). The other encounter was hundreds of miles away and not...
Phase Two: Contact. Knowing at last what was afoot, Allied warships arrived in force off ports where the Nazis had landed.
TIME may also be interested in knowing that there are 160 hospitals and nearly 100 clinics staffed by osteopathic physicians and surgeons in the U. S. and that approximately 10,000 doctors of osteopathy are licensed and practicing in this and other countries.
In 528 A. D., when Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee was condemned by King Arthur's Court to be burned at the stake, he saved his life by a Yankee trick. Knowing that a solar eclipse was imminent, he predicted the end of the world, got himself a...
No small part of Kimball's success (and a potent budget-balancing aid) is his ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my...