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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Kurtz should know that it is as tactless to question a midget's published size as it is an actress's published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...encouraging to know that the library authorities are investigating undergraduate suggestions for the limitation of book borrowing to two weeks. Widener this year has been buffeted by criticisms of its poor lighting and the exclusiveness of its stack privileges. But while its guardians may find it difficult to correct structural faults---to cast aside inefficient desk lamps and supply the kind of competent over-head lighting system that delights the denizens of Langdell Hall---still the library overlords can eliminate the blight from borrowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INVITATION TO INERTIA | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

...sharp christie should not stay at home, eyeing the toe straps on a pair of his father's dusty skies. The snow trains and inexpensive cottages have made a healthy weekend practical. There are a great many potential fans who are dubious about skiing because they do not know how to get started, but a Harvard school for beginning, intermediate and advanced stages should give them just the incentive they need. And then the over-confident old hands may stop awhile and learn some fundamentals, instead of schussing down a trial that is much too steep for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKI CHASE | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...know I can lick 'em," cried DePinto as he took his place, his arms laden with the spheres that were to tell the tale of victory or defeat for Harvard. He sent his first ball spinning down the alley and it scattered the candle pins for a perfect strike. He took another shot, and again all the pins were felled, and so it went until his total had sky-rocketed to 149, leaving the Crimson sphere-slingers with their 1686 aggregate score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Cops Keep College High In Vanquishing Eli Bowlers | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...students entertain the belief that there will be a reception line of prospective employers awaiting them with flattering offers of jobs on Commencement Day. They know that if they get any offer of a job at all, it likely will be of the blue-denim rather than of the white-collar variety. And they'll accept that blue-denim job in the hope that some day times may be better and their college training may help them to advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

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