Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> A sinkful of dirty dishes to TIME'S housewife-checker for not knowing that in Holland she would be a huisvrouw. -ED.
Most U.S. airmen, hardheaded and passionately devoted to America's future in the air, made no public objection to the President's use of this catch phrase. Nor did they much care, for well they know that it is an empty phrase, as yet completely lacking in definition...
The News, with a knowing eye on its "common man" circulation (2,050,000 daily, 3,950,000 Sunday), also recalled with a sneer and a gloat the President's respectability: "Respectable, but not popular. [It] is the smallest, as to circulation, of the four New York City morning...
Out last week was an unusual medical book, Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain (Hoeber; $5), an authoritative treatise which Dr. Walter C. Alvarez directs toward young physicians, but which will be as eagerly read by laymen as by doctors. Its 471 pages include some of the ideas the famed gastroenterologist summarized...
>"I remember a worrisome young man who, one day, came back from the roentgenoscopic room wringing his hands and trembling with fear. It is all up with me.' he said. 'The X-ray man said I have a hopeless cancer of the stomach.' Knowing that the roentgenologist...