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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert A. Taft and the townspeople of Ottawa, Ohio (pop. 2,400) had a date to meet one night this week in the county courthouse. It was something of a special occasion-Ottawa was the last stop on the Senator's 100-day politicking tour of his home state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senator Rests | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Manners & Morals. All in all, the best novels of the year came from Britain. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was a grim warning of what the latter stages of statism could be like. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice and a bestseller, it was a happy combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Without scrapping the rotating schedules, there remain two ways to case the burden on instructors teaching the courses involved. First, University Hall might advance the deadline for grades in those courses which meet toward the end of the exam period. If this would make it too tough for the Administrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Schedule | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

We know, or think we know, that Russia has the atomic bomb at its disposal. We don't know how many she has. If we view the situation with sanity, we have no reason to feel that everything depends on our knowing how far Russia has advanced in her program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts from Flander's Lectures | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

In recognizing Germany's importance in the "cold war," the U.S. and England must learn what the French know: it is terribly dangerous to strengthen Germany without knowing how that strength will be used. This consideration and no other must be first guide for future policy.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fourth Reich? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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