Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they're not slighted at Harvard. "Why all the fuss then?" is the question that might be asked. It's just that when a group of athletes combined together in unshakable unity, a team in other words, are achieving great things, its good to let the public know that the unit is responsible for success, not only the individual stars...
...discrepancies in the story may be ignored. But one confusing element would seem regrettable: first the little teller promises his wife that someday he will be rich and famous; then his sensational adventure comes about apparently as an accident. The result is that the slightly bewildered spectator doesn't know whether to regard him as the epitome of respectability that he has always seemed, or a Borgia in disguise. This uncertainty does not add to the interest. There is an amusing uncertainty springing up in the third act, however, over whether the little man actually made the kill that...
...Earl would do his negotiating with the Steel Exporters Association of America, an organization of big steel concerns. The Earl of Dudley was asked point-blank if he wanted to arrange price-fixing. Said he coyly but mistakenly: "You have laws here to prevent that sort of thing, you know...
...Whitman, a man of the world in his understanding of men. He could turn out gnarled sentences as strong as Whitman's: "The great, keen, shrewd, boring, patient, philosophic, critical and remorselessly searching world will find out all things, and bring them to light," he wrote. "I know Lincoln better than I know myself. He was so good and so odd a man, how in the hell could I help study...
...drawn on by Emanuel Hertz, author of Abraham Lincoln-A New Portrait, in editing The Hidden Lincoln. A belated testimonial to Herndon's integrity, The Hidden Lincoln is a big book, dense and badly edited, repetitious, with few explanatory notes. Although it makes fascinating reading for people who know Herndon's Lincoln, it is likely to be alternately boring and shocking to others: boring in its painstaking inquiry into trivial matters of fact; shocking because of its candor in discussing Lincoln's doubtful paternity, his relations with his wife, his scrapes with women before his marriage...