Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statesmen know that when Paul van Zeeland was Premier of Belgium he proved, as Newspundit Walter Lippmann wrote last week, "to be perhaps the most efficient, the least confused and the most sure-footed of the statesmen who dealt with the Depression." Last spring Belgium's young and vigorous King Leopold III used his great popularity in England and France, his many contacts with London and Paris leaders-both Government and Opposition-to get Paul van Zeeland officially commissioned by the United Kingdom and the French Republic to make "an inquiry into the possibility of obtaining a general reduction...
...volunteer workers. Rose said he was arrested in Leningrad in 1923. Hanley was caught trying to escape from Russia to Latvia in 1925. Each was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but, although they have served out their sentences, they are still being held. They told me they know of three other native-born Americans who are held prisoner in other Soviet camps...
Said Professor Schaper's good friend, famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "... A monument to freedom of inquiry." In Oklahoma, William Schaper, now white-haired, bit his lip to hold back the tears, faltered: "It is so sudden I hardly know what to say. I never have borne a grudge against any man involved in my dismissal. Of course I am profoundly grateful...
...years old to day I think you might send me Money so I could go the Fair at Chicago in about two weeks befor the fall rush comes. It would only cost about 200.00/100 dollars. I can get Passes to Chicago and return let me Know as soon as you can so I can get redy I want to seee the Fair so bad, please let me go. Your affectson...
...know how it happened. Drawing is not a process of clear and deliberate thinking, it seems to me a function of eyes and nerves. . . . As a centipede may not be quite aware which of its limbs it puts forth first and which is to follow, I am quite unable to explain to myself why I draw a line one way and not another. It always seems to me compelling, as if it could not possibly be different-but I never know why. Let physiologists and psychologists explain the mechanical functions and the psychic impulses that originate art. I am merely...