Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Is penicillin a drug or an argument? Doctors have been awed and appalled by a gusher of argumentative books and reports claiming that 1) penicillin will cure almost anything; 2) its victories have been only temporary because the bugs are fighting back. Out this week came still another. This one...
He admitted that the Army went looking for players: "We do this deliberately . . . knowing from experience that the athlete makes the strong battle leader." But, he added, West Point makes no concessions to its star athletes. An All-America tackle who flunked in mathematics was kicked out last June. General...
One of Author Kavan's mad characters asks, "to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope to prove one's innocence when there is no means of knowing of what one has been accused? No...
Fun-loving George, who knew everyone worth knowing in Washington, became vice president of the Home Insurance Company. The way it happened was that the company had found itself involved with Boss Pendergast in Missouri's fire insurance scandal. It needed someone like George to fan out the smoke...
Moreover: "The leaders of communistic Russia thoroughly understand the . . . philosophy . . . which underlies the traditional French and Anglo-American democracies. Knowing this, they are in a position to predict roughly how, in a given set of circumstances, we will act. . . ." He suggests that the "rest of us" acquire "a similar realism...