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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor Hirohito in his moat-encircled castle. They clattered over the ancient drawbridge at 1:30 a. m., bound for the sixth Imperial Conference since the founding of the present Japanese Constitutional Empire. About noon the statesmen dispersed but not until late afternoon was the Japanese public permitted to know what had taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Plan | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...future when a man behaves in a criminal manner, we will not say he is crazy or vicious. . . . Instead we will know that too much pyruvic acid has accumulated in his thalamic cells, or that there is no cocarboxylase, a high-brow term for Vitamin BI, operating in his thalamus. We will be able to tell that he did not grow enough association neurones descending from his cortex, so that now he does not deliver enough acetylcholine to his mid-brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biochemist's Boast | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...have unlimited confidence in Bob," Mrs. Myerson said last night. "He is a boy of character. All we wanted to know was where he was." She did not know whether or not he plans to return to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Father Finds Vanished Yardling After Flying Trip to Salt Lake | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

...good. Finally the stranger came up to him and told him his face was familiar, out "now don't tell me, let me guess." Cantor got a little weary of this and remarked that he was the man with five daughters. "Oh, I know, Mr. Dionne," the stranger said quickly. "No," said Cantor, "Eddie Cantor--Dionne in slow motion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANDERS THEATRE JAMMED TO HEAR REFUGEE MEETING | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

There is in every university a department of education where men, already through the mill, strive to learn methods of imparting their knowledge to those who do not have it, but there is no institution or department I know of designed for letting students learn how and why they learn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

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