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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dreams & Delirium. Young (28), handsome Piotr Pirogov quickly found a literary agent, arranged to give lectures, write articles and turn out a book. But Barsov was at a loss. Older than his navigator and outranking him, he seemed to resent his pal's success. An inarticulate, heavy-boned man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Flight from Freedom | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

"When I helped Anna White I had no idea of getting something back," mused Portia. "But now, at a time when I need her most, she comes to me offering to try to get the facts I need to break Steve Ward's alibi. God has a strange and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Lady Is Insecure | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Landlubber. In the moldering, sway-backed Goldenrod, twice sunk and salvaged in her 40 years, it takes an eye as knowing as Cap'n Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: There Goes the Showboat | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

He had arranged to give his body to Massachusetts General for autopsy. What the pathologists found was the first known case in which both the original prostatic cancer and the outlying colonies in the bones had disappeared. The latter had been completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Benjamin Twaddle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Somewhere, after the birth of our second child, there came that shadow of a doubt. We couldn't help questioning the sanity of the whole extravaganza. Has any set of parents the right to deprive a child of the privilege of planting a row of beans that will grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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