Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, more than six months after the first bomb flattened Hiroshima, the scientists who made it possible were a bewildered, frustrated group of men, many of them not knowing what to do, many unhappy in what they were doing, nearly all of them worried about the future. Almost to...
Professor Frederick L. Schuman's book is probably the ablest apology for Russia ever written by an American. It is like a brilliant brief by a very clever lawyer who is fortified rather than handicapped by knowing that his client did commit the murder, and even where the body...
Apple of His Eye (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson; produced by Jed Harris) tells of a prosperous Indiana farmer (Walter Huston) who falls in love with his hired girl (Mary James). Knowing that he is old enough to be her father, he is not bold enough to ask for her...
As predicted, Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co. reported "a complete blackout" of its transatlantic signals. Other radio concerns struggled mightily and got some messages through. The astronomers looked knowing.
Fortnight ago San Quentin's doors swung open and ex-Convict Stiles, who had tried to keep his mother from knowing about his prison sentence, found him self surrounded by eager sob-sisters and reporters. He was also the reluctant hero of a mushy radio program which stressed his...