Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know what is going to happen to you? You are going to have a sudden set of individuals who are shortly going to demand of you that there be a system of examination and application by the Federal Government upon every doctor of America to prove his right to be admitted to practice under the Federal law in addition to that which he is now enjoying under his local [State] acts. And then we will come about to the thing which I am utterly against and wholly abhor but which I tell you is on its way-the designation...
While Snead was living up to the expectations of the gallery, his confrères were reassuring experienced observers who know that golf's uncertainties make such performances by favorites wildly improbable. On the very first hole, Al Watrous, home pro at Oakland Hills, took two strokes to get out of a trap which, in innumerable unimportant rounds, he had invariably avoided. Bert McDowell, an able amateur from Baton Rouge, knocked three balls into the lake on the 16th hole, took three putts for an n, posted a 91, high score for the first day. Young Frank Strafaci...
...Joseph Cullen Root of Lyons, Iowa, tired of his State-restricted fraternal insurance society, the V.A.S. (Vera Amicitia Sempiterna Est or "True Friendship is Eternal") of which he was Chief Rector, started a similar one which would know no bounds. He had fun preparing a ritual but was stumped for a name for his new order. Then in church one Sunday he heard a minister use the simile of woodmen clearing away the forest near their homes for safety's sake. Promptly Founder Root chose the name Modern Woodmen of America. Local lodges were called Camps, members Neighbors...
Later he was looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. "You know, Vaggy, you're not a bad looking guy. Right now all spruced up like that you remind me of the Yard. Funny, they spend all Spring getting that Yard fixed up for the graduates to see when they come back. Why are the alumni so important at Commencement" Perhaps, it's because they're going to give us some money...
...help the University as an institution or to help the students? Both I guess, but I'll bet there are a lot of men who would rather help the students directly than create national scholarships or roving professorships, but they can't give any money because they don't know what the University needs from the Undergraduate point of view...