Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Widener, which controls the House libraries, would have all believe that their inadequacies are caused by light-fingered local students. No doubt it is a temptation to pick up a book and leave, knowing that in five out of the seven House libraries no one will life a finger to...
His father hated Mirabeau. "He is crossgrained, fantastic, fiery, awkward, with a drift to evil before he knows of it or is capable of it. ... I shall go on dragging my son along without knowing what river to throw him into." Mirabeau almost died of smallpox at three, was disfigured...
The House system was supposed to fill this gap and in prewar days it did so to some extent. President Lowell's idea of the intellectual exchange over the dinner table was an admirable ideal but has not worked in practice. I have known students in the Houses who eat...
It was the first movie I ever saw without knowing something of its direction, cast or story. So it was a double thrill to watch the unfolding of this superb picture. . . .
High-salaried executives get a lot of complaints about the size of their paychecks. Recently, 29 corporation presidents got the same letter from a complainant named Guy K. Benson, of Manhattan. Benson wrote that he was a small stockholder in their companies and that he thought their salaries too high...