Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Groups of patriotic young ladies were clustered about the stairs at the Statler Army-Navy Officers' affair. Herbie Gold, among others from chase, found it necessary to decline offers from these ladies to share the buck forty-eight expenditure for an evening of dance and laughter. Knowing these fellows would...
International music circles, remembering Strauss's huge international royalties in the past, knowing him for a highly practical artist, were inclined to discount the heroism in his stubbornness. On the other hand, it was quite conceivable that the 80-year-old composer might have balked at riding the few...
Grain traders, without knowing how much wheat WFA will purchase, could be sure of two points: 1) that WFA would buy just as much wheat as necessary to hold prices firm, 2) that the Government agency, either through direct buying or commodity loans to farmers, has the market so rigged...
Diving airplanes have been reported as reaching supersonic-speeds* of 840 m.p.h. Veteran airmen raise their eyebrows at these reports, knowing that at such speeds speedometers are unreliable. But there are authenticated records of peculiar happenings at plane speeds of 500 to 600 m.p.h., which approach the velocity of sound...
The curtain rose on the prologue-the girl's family coming to a crummy Brooklyn bar for clues of her whereabouts. The audience ceased squirming. The story flashed back three years upon the girl's family after they had pitched her out-a varied clan portrayed with crude...