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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although there is no way of knowing the proportion of purchasing power that is contained in bank accounts less than 3000 rubles, it is certain that a very considerable amount of savings will be wiped out. Even state bonds will be "devaluated". Purchasing power will simply vanish before the stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russian Ways | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Bored Bostonians raised no outcry, saw little that was reprehensible or even novel in Convict Curley's return to office. He had been in jail before; in 1903 he served 60 days for conspiring to defraud the Civil Service Commission. The electorate nevertheless had made him mayor of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Hail to the Chief | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Season-ticket subscribers, who buy their season's supply of opera without knowing what they are getting, were beginning to wonder. The Met had stars who could both sing and act-Melchior, Tagliavini, Traubel, Albanese, Pons, Pinza. Four out of the six had yet to be heard this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Antics at the Met | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Physicists at Berkeley, said Thornton, had shot high energy (100,000,000 electron-volt) neutrons and protons through carbon and other elements. Knowing the size and number of the nuclei, they could calculate how many particles should pass through the material without hitting any nuclei. More came through than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plenty of Nothing | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

In the football teaching department, Lamar believes proper blocking and tackling to be of the essence, and holds that position is the vital factor. "If you can teach a man position, the man can do the rest of it if he wants to play. Knowing how to play a man...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Freshman Coach Lamar Molds Crimson Gridmen | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

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