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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The behavior of Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford had been puzzling White House newsmen for a week and a half. In view of the political debacle facing the Truman Administration, it was hard to understand how handsome Mr. Clifford could look so happy and knowing. He looked like a man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: You Have to Do Something | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Most Frenchmen finally faced these choices last week, knowing, as one said, that they had been living in a fool's paradise. Last winter when they put down the Communist strikes they showed that they did not want the Communists in power; but they were not willing to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Awake | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Looking this over, I see that most of the words are "Boudrean." So maybe we've just going to have him with us wherever we go instead of Ted Williams. It isn't that I'd mind not knowing if an atom bomb hit New York. It isn't that...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

Many an Argentine scoffed-discreetly. Only fanatic Peronistas took the plot seriously. John Griffiths seemed to be both amused and bewildered at his new prominence across the Plata. Five months ago, he had been jailed in B.A. on Peronistas' charges that he had fomented a bank strike in Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: To Defend the President | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

"Fraternity Row is a neighborhood of teen-age Little Scorpions Clubs, each with its secret grip, passwords and recognition signals. It may well be that all fraternities are using the same grip without knowing it, but . . . secrets of this caliber . . . can never be divulged, let alone compared . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Memoirs of an ex-Greek | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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