Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such incomparable weather since the war started that every day we can see these "silver fish" swimming into the clouds: because as the clouds approach -a thing you are not normally conscious of - these balloons appear to swim into them. The latest crack, which I expect you already know, is about the dear old lady who said "The Germans can't frighten me, sitting up there in those balloons." . . . The most succulent rumor I heard the other day was that seven U-boats had given themselves up and were landed on the beach at Weymouth. Why on the beach...
Tommy is on the right track. If he hangs onto Oliver and gets some men back into his band that know the meaning of swing and limits his own playing to lead solos, he'll start going up once more...
President Conant's cat met severe injury in its posterior quarters last night. No one seemed to know how the cat weathered the injury or how the accident occurred...
Most histories of education start with the Greek and Roman period and neglect the older systems, a study of which often proves invaluable, Hartshorne declared yesterday. "Max Weber, well-known sociologist and economist, is the only man I know who has written an authoritative comparative work on the subject...
Wells urges his favorite project of a new World Encyclopaedia or "World Brain," but his sense of humor bitterly tells him that even if endowed it might fall into the hands of Nicholas Murray Butler. "I am impatient and at the same time I do not know how to accelerate matters," says H. G. Wells. "I do not think this is simply a case of the distress of an old man in a hurry...