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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was nothing unusual in the fact that John W. Hay, 49, was "a dental coward" and neglected his teeth so long that for two months he had to spend two evenings a week and several hours each Saturday in the chair. What was unusual was that his dentist, knowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cavities Unlimited | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Over the years, as the trusted and all-knowing head of the bookkeeping department, Mamie Averill created a sort of personal bank balance for herself, auditors discovered, by under-recording receipts in the company ledgers. Example: in 1952, after depositing in the firm's bank account a $94,891...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Putting the Blame on Mame | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The value of input-output analysis to individual industries and local areas is perhaps more limited than its value to a national government, but an industrialist does benefit by knowing the extent to which demand for his product might be affected by economic change. Input-output analysis will not replace...

Author: By Soma S. Golden, | Title: Loentief Relates Economic Theory to Fact | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

Victor Manusevitch's programming for the second concert of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a...

Author: By Edgar Murray, | Title: Cambridge Civic Symphony | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

"Granted, you have won. Knowing what you started from. General de Gaulle, one takes off one's hat to you. But now what are you going to do? Rely on the Anglo-Saxons? They will treat you as a satellite. Range yourself with the Soviets? They will impose their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: An End of One's Own | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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