Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense of Guam, Republican Representative Maas of Minnesota cried: "We want the world to know that we intend to defend every inch of American soil anywhere, at any time, from anybody." Chairman May of the Military Affairs Committee joined in and shouted: "Americans must take their stand for or against this country. The American frontier is where the Stars & Stripes...
...county judge's $15,000 job, an Errors & Appeals lay judge resigned; 4) Governor Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey, political debtor and friend of Democratic Boss Frank Hague Sr. of Jersey City, appointed Frank Hague Jr. to the Errors & Appeals vacancy. Said Governor Moore: "I know this appointment will make his dad happy...
Back in Cannes, Dancer Daniels blurbed: "Herr Hitler spoke to me in German, and I don't know what the word for it is but a translator said he said I had marvelous movements of the body and legs, and I guess that meant flexes. He said, 'You are the best dancer I have ever seen...
...hours of hydroelectricity in 1938. Potential maximum of all practicable waterpower sites has been estimated around 325 billion kwh. Though completion of the New Deal's dam program will not harness all this, experts foresee a big surplus over municipal and irrigation power needs. They also claim they know how to mop it up-build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires 225,000 amperes-enough current...
Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...