Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courts for eleven years. Her brother, George J. Gould, whom the others accused of malfeasance, was finally removed as a trustee. In the end, although no wrong-doing was found against her, the trustees settled the case for $20,000,000. On the stand she testified: "I do not know how much money I gave away, but I think I gave away most of it." Day after the case was settled she resigned as a trustee. The settlement and her charities practically wiped out her capital but she still had the income...
...appearances, Harry Hopkins had indeed recommended Pinky over Aubrey. The choice in fact represented no great change in policy, but a concession to political expediency. Pinky Harrington is a first-rate politician. Particularly does he know how to coddle Congressmen -a talent which single-minded Aubrey Williams lacks. Since Relief is headed for a good going-over in the next Congress, Franklin Roosevelt needs such a man at the top of WPA. Even 100% New Dealers concede that Aubrey Williams is not the man, after his public talk about class war and the political privileges of Reliefers...
...high-school teacher in Aurora, Ill. ignored the advice of his principal and friend, took a job as high-school principal in nearby Oswego, Ill. (pop. 1,200). He knew that it was no sinecure, for many Oswegans were angry over removal of his predecessor, but he did not know it was a killing...
...century or more, found that they showed a trend towards warmth. In Manhattan, white-thatched James Henry Kimball, famed weather adviser of transatlantic fliers, found that in his territory average annual temperatures rose 2.1° from 1831 to 1900, 1.4° more from 1900 to 1938. Meteorologists do not know whether the present warm trend is likely to last 20 years or 20,000 years...
...Christian thinking much realistic pessimism had made itself felt. Christian Century, a thoughtful and influential organ of Protestantism, had lately declared that the churches today are in a "time of waiting," a time in which "the church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...