Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the point of view of the University itself, the "Student Faculty" system should spread much good will and greater understanding of Harvard among the underprivileged persons of greater Boston. There are many persons who are our next door neighbors, yet they know nothing about us, except what they read in the papers or hear through rumor. Often these hearsay impressions are unfounded, and hostile, and such impressions can only be corrected by giving a first hand knowledge...
...Herr Henlein made a much-advertised visit to England, returned last week to announce that he had found "widespread sympathy" for all Germans in London, precipitated a free fight between Sudetendeutsch members of the Czechoslovak Parliament, who had come to hail Leader Henlein, and Czechoslovak police who did not know that these zealots who tried to break through their lines were persons with parliamentary immunity. The cracked crowns of the deputies were to be investigated by Parliament committee, but Adolf Hitler's press was screaming with such rage at latest reports that Eduard Benes had need...
Though he does not yet know it, Artist William Edmondson's tombstones are all tattle directe. Cut directly in the stone without preliminary modeling, they are all small, because he has not yet been able to buy a sizable block. Their charm lies in the simple-hearted directness with which Sculptor Edmondson has chiseled out woolly-headed angels, rams, dumpy little preachers, lawyers and ladies with bustles...
...ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed of carvin' in me." Curiously, Sculptor Edmondson seldom goes to church, but likes to shout and praise God while carving. Unlike most religious Negroes, William Edmondson never quotes the Bible. "The oney time," said he last week...
...Philadelphia, the city zoo acquired two Komodo lizards from the Dutch East Indies, tried to feed them raw hamburger, found they would eat only eggs. The keepers forthwith filled empty eggshells with raw hamburger, fed them to the dragon-lizards, found they didn't know the difference...