Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Few of these items would be available in any quantity before Christmas, but the words rolled on the tongue like bubble sum. Some U.S. citizens even enjoyed knowing that there were no more restrictions on cotton linters, natural resins, green bone glue, horse mane hair and an insecticide named pyrethrum...
. .. It is of no use to cry that we should have suppressed our discovery of how to harness atomic energy. Other nations would have discovered it within a very short time. Indeed, it is to the good of the whole world that we, a normally peace-loving nation, did discover...
Yes & No. Once the formalities of surrender are completed and MacArthur has moved into Japan, he will be Supreme Allied Commander there. This occupation will be totally different from that of Germany; there will be no "military government" as such. But MacArthur presumably will have under him a chief military...
Behind the blackout curtains, physicists got their work orders. A few, horrified by what was planned, refused the summons. But most went to work, knowing that discovery could not be stopped, that the U.S. and its scientific allies must make it first. Many hoped that they would fail and that...
The goodbyes said, age-old protocol called for the King to return the visit. Less than half an hour later, the President greeted him aboard the Augusta. George VI, knowing the Augusta's sailing schedule, hurriedly inspected the guard. But Harry Truman was a good host, took him below...