Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's one I know in Bedford...
...same experience, it seemed to him that he was stationary, that the whole central well of the observatory (solidly anchored through concrete pillars to bedrock) was turning in the opposite direction. The observatory's able, wry director, Walter Sydney Adams, explained that it was an illusion. "You know," he said. "Relativity...
Satevepost readers did not know that Author Marquand's original Wickford Point was twice as long and nearly twice as biting. This week the book appeared in its uncut form, promising to be another best-seller of the stature of The Late George Apley. Comparison of the two versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction...
...modern novel was his Roll River (1935), a story laid in his home town, Harrisburg, from 1880 to 1920. It is his theory (like that of James Branch Cabell) that good novels cannot be written about the present age; a writer needs "the perspective of years to know what most of it amounts to-if anything." Not because his theory is necessarily correct, but because he has written good U. S. historical romances (Drums, Long Hunt, et al.), readers will be glad that Bitter Creek returns to the past. Set in the West...
...this recognition is tendered on the basis of notoriety rather than ability. Since the members of the class have not had the opportunity to learn to know each other, votes are dictated by completely false and illogical standards. The athlete and the milk-drinking champion triumph over the able executive. Perhaps freshmen should be given an opportunity to recognize their fellows, but in this case a spade should be called a spade. Elections should then be for the Most Popular Boy and the Best Athlete, rather than Class President and Class Treasurer--terms which connote something entirely different...