Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curriculum in its first year. By last week two had flunked out, five others had quit. But the 13 survivors were excited about their novel course, their crack teachers. Said Student Bowen Weisheit: "These fellows teach differently from any teachers I ever had. I don't know how it is, but there's something they do that just makes it click...
Every morning and every evening Manhattan's municipal radio station WNYC plays The Star-Spangled Banner as its signature. As every patriot knows, every patriot springs to attention at the first notes of the national anthem, remains rigid until the end. Because Elizabeth Faffs husband is a loyal WNYC fan and a patriot to boot, Mrs. Faff had a problem on her hands. She wrote the station that he made her get out of bed both times, complained: "It is rather upsetting....Have you any suggestions?" Stumped, WNYC referred the letter to Mayor La-Guardia. The Mayor was stumped...
...stations owned by Publisher Hearst, within the last six months KEHE (Los Angeles), KTSA (San Antonio), WACO (Waco), KNOW (Austin), WINS (Manhattan) have been sold, subject to FCC approval. KYA (San Francisco), KOMA (Oklahoma City), WISN (Milwaukee) are reported for sale. Remaining Hearst stations are WCAE (Pittsburgh), WBAL (Baltimore...
...meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities in Richmond, Va., James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney confessed that he had been a truant in his youth, and a persistent one: "To be a successful truant in a modern city requires considerable resourcefulness, as you people undoubtedly know...
Onetime Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University, Dr. Darwin, 50, has been Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, since 1936. In 1931 he compared physics to "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." Physics has given birth to several other children since then, and Physicist Darwin will try to deal with them all, since research in pure science as well as industrial work goes on at N.P.L. He will move into the palace with a wife and five real...