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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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World's End, Between Two Worlds and Dragon's Teeth have all been best-sellers in England, and the publisher, Werner Laurie, wrote me that he was using nearly all his quota of paper for them; he added that he had sold 5,000 copies of Dragon'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

In many a U.S. city bulging with war workers, landlords have closed their doors to families with children, knowing full well they could rent them in time on their own terms. Last week these advertisements appeared in the Dallas News:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unkindest Cut | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

For my people lending their strength to the years, to the gone years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Feb. 22, 1943 | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Knox's Point. The difficulty of knowing what Admiral Osami Nagano has planned is far more than the usual difficulty of guessing an enemy's moves. That is partly because Nagano, in a race of inscrutable men, is notoriously tight of tongue, partly because the Japanese have a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Nagano's Arc. The pattern of these skirmishes, both naval and verbal, indicated that both sides have some pretty heavy plans for the South Pacific. On the Japanese side, the man responsible for plans was the man who had Secretary Knox on the edge of his chair-Chief of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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