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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Lamborn, the rotund, one-armed reception clerk who has presided at the Governor's office for most of his 65 years, has seen four men depart and run for the Presidency, and two of them succeed. He goes about his business amiably conscious of his responsibilities, knowing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Dewey & Dragon | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

was not likely to be deterred from knowing prophetically (in 1932):

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Restoration | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Once upon a time a handsome young CPA who knew his own mind (as all CPA's do know their own minds) decided that he should find a wife. So the handsome young CPA haunted office buildings and office buildings. Knowing his figures so well it wasn't long before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creating A Ripple | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

With as much of an aura of the coming millennium as GWTW surrounding its approach, FWTBT--"For Whom the Bell Tolls"--seems to be a little battle-scarred but still on its feet. If Hemingway's story had hit the screen unpublicized it probably would have been picked out as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/19/1943 | See Source »

All his life that statement has haunted Charlie Beard. Because of it, Marxists have tried to claim him as one of their own, and other men have jumped down his throat. William Howard Taft once attacked Beard as a subverter of the republican (small "r") faith. President Robert Maynard Hutchins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Beard | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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