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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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^ At the Wedgwood Room is Victor Borge (pronounced Borguh) as the "unmelancholy Dane," who arrived in the U.S. two years ago not knowing a word of English. Borge's droll, suave, teasing act, full of casually crazy asides ("T.ie tenor comes in in single file") culminates expertly at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Better Late Than Ever | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

This hardly seems the right moment for a period musical, particularly one with so much book trouble. A bodacious, bawdacious leg show would be more in keeping with the times. In any case, "Away We Go" is an operetta, pure and simple, at its best, witty and charming, and at...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/17/1943 | See Source »

For this loss there must be replacement, and some of it will come from the nation's family men. This week Selective Service opened another replacement pool. It rescinded its blanket deferment of men between 38 and 45, ordered them classified like younger men. Well knowing that these military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Another Million? | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

The trapped Axis animal was still strong, it had already mauled its enemy and would maul him again. Nevertheless the trap was slowly closing. At the fronts, along the supply lines in the rear (see p. 21 ), the Allies pressed on, knowing full well that victory in Tunisia by summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Trap | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

At 75, William Allen White remains one of the country's most sapient reporters, with a special knack for observations which others have felt but never quite got down in Will White's bumblebee prose. Fortnight ago Editor White, back home from a trip to Washington and New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: It Seems to Will White | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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