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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Deadly Conflict. President Truman's speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) called for new alignments and new directions in every country in the world. Many a paragraph in it clawed crabwise before the winds of political expediency. It left a lot of questions unanswered (example: Why was it right for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: New World | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

One thin dime and one subway stop away from the Yard, the 13-year-old Cambridge Police Station is as sensitive to Veritas vibrations as University Hall itself. Situated within whistle-distance of Central Square, the triangular four-story building is home base for a force that has worked hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

Duel in the Sun (David O. Selznick; Vanguard) is a knowing blend of oats and aphrodisiac. It is the costliest, the most lushly Technicolored, the most lavishly cast, the loudest ballyhooed, and the sexiest horse opera ever made.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Until now, the leaders of groups threatened by Communist infiltration have at least had the comfort of knowing who was and who was not a CP member, and could with some acuity predicate their course of action on this knowledge. The proposal to outlaw the Communist Party would only make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schwell Party | 3/13/1947 | See Source »

Big Broom. Knowing this, McCloy refused the presidency when it was first offered to him in December. But he dished out a blunt appraisal of the Bank's faults. McCloy's bluntness won such favor that Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder offered him the job again-on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: In the Nick of Time | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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