Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact is I know lots of older people who grumble about it, too. That's why I decided to write this letter. Of course I know this letter won't do any good, but now that I have had my say I will keep quiet...
Will you kindly let me know whether or not you received any money or the equivalent of money for playing on this team between...
...first of the two acts sees him oscillating between Paris and London, the one the home of his first wife, whom be thought drowned, the other the home of his second. There is a good deal of horseplay connected with an attempt to keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little by it. The efforts to make him appear mad are scarcely more subtle than the preliminary stealing of his pants. One comes dangerously close to boredom while waiting for the first curtain. The second act looks up considerably, however...
Purpose of the Conference is, according to the announcement, to give university men a factual knowledge of a problem which "will remain to torment the nation for years to come," and also to supplement this theoretical information by contact with "older men who know the problem from direct experience." The discussions "have a singlehearted aim: to analyze all major policies and see what each entails...
...light of the contribution of Homer, it is hard to believe that the first great poet in English literature wrote an epic about the Troy story without seeing a line of Homer, or even knowing a line in translation. Yet this poet, called "father of English poetry," and to those who know him second only to Shakespeare in genius, left us an epic poem, a psychological novel done in Fourteenth Century terms, about several of the figures of the Trojan contest, a novel which is as full of the lusty breath of Old England as it is of the wind...