Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss who has just been shifted into a region where he is a total stranger has been fairly stumped to know whom the Party should favor as a candidate. Izvestia recently described district Communist organizers "perusing for two hours the list of 37 presidents of village Soviets of their district but absolutely unable to appraise the political standing of these presidents- they are all unknown to them." In these circumstances, according...
Even those who did not know the legend of Amphitryon*-whose wife Alcmena was seduced by Jupiter-expected this because they knew Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Spirited Aphrodisiantics, urbanely conducted infidelities are the hallmark of Lunt-Fontanne plays, which take on added zest from the well-known fact that Actors Lunt and Fontanne have been contentedly married for the last 15 years...
...half the charm of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The other half is the reassuring fact which enables even the Old Lady from Dubuque to giggle at them with a clear conscience. For as one such old lady is reported to have said: "Isn't it comforting to know they're married...
...changed his name because he remembered he had accidentally left his luggage in the criminals' auto. The jury pondered for four hours and 45 minutes, found Golfer Moore "not guilty." Said he to reporters after keeping them waiting an hour and a half, "Whaddoyou want? You guys know everything," then made for Manhattan to appear as guest of honor in a night club...
...channels which drains all the tissues of the body and parallels the blood system, Dr. Drinker observed that inflammation in a wound blocks the lymph channels in that part of the body. This blockade does two things. It causes substances, whose constituents Dr. Drinker confessed he does not know, to accumulate in the wound. These substances cause scars. The blockade also prevents the free flow of lymph to the site of the wound. Lymph, in some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs. If, as in an inflamed wound, it cannot reach invading germs the instant...