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Word: knowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Upswing. In Hollywood, a thug who robbed a restaurant wrote down an observation for the owner: "Not one nickel was phony. You know, people are getting more honest these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Soon after James David MacConnell became associate dean of Stanford University's School of Education back in 1947, he began to have callers from the school systems of overcrowded California towns. Most of them were superintendents who "thought they needed more schools or additions but didn't know how to go about getting them. I was struck," says MacConnell, "by how lost some of them seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Aid | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Into the $18,000-a-year job of press secretary for President Truman this week stepped Joseph Hudson Short Jr., 46, Virginia Military Institute graduate, veteran newsman and Baltimore Sun White House correspondent for the last five years. Mississippi-born Joe Short got to know Harry Truman well while covering his vice-presidential campaign of 1944, has been a good friend ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Man on the Job | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

While we cannot claim that every story in the CRIMSON this term has been accurate in every detail, we can assure Dean Hall that we have never deliberately been inaccurate or irresponsible. As to the "specific serious instances" when Dean Hall claims to "know the facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Irresponsibility' | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...called the CRIMSON to explain that the "Red" list was not, as we had originally supposed, now but that in reality it was the old "Reducators" list that received widespread publicity two years ago. We decided to publish that list because we felt that our readers were entitled to know which faculty members the sponsors of the list had called "Communists, Communist sympathizers, or fellow travelers." For we felt that only if our readers had this information could they understand the significance of the list and its political use. The CRIMSON felt and still feels that we gave our readers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Irresponsibility' | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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