Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure it or kill the patient." He said he would send his company's comptroller to help President Dykstra work out the figures...
...worried by such high-handed talk, for its university is one of Wisconsin's great popular prides. They remonstrated with him, and at another budget hearing, on a teacher's retirement fund, Julius Heil showed he was learning his lesson. At first he flared up, demanded to know why there should be such a thing as a teachers' retirement fund. "What do they do for me when I get old?" he snorted. "They don't hold...
...official procession and went through the square shaking hands with men, patting the heads of children. At Sfax the Caid (Mayor), whose grandfather fought against the invading French 57 years ago, presented M. Daladier with a silver olive branch symbolic of "union and peace," declared: "We have come to know how great has been the . . . good to us of French protection and administration...
Asked in Algiers if he planned reprisals against Italian newspaper men in France for the Tharaud expulsion, M. Daladier cracked back: "France is a free country. There will be no reprisals. I know how unhappy they [Italian journalists] would be back in Italy...
...noted that the idea of a comparatively recent divergence of man from the anthropoid stem is generally repugnant to "that self-conscious and conceited prig who calls himself Homo sapiens and is fond of acting like the viceroy of God." He points out that some scientists who ought to know better keep toying with the idea that, during the general evolution of the vertebrates, a sort of separate channel was set aside for the line which was eventually to flower...