Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile workers of this city is a national scandal. . . . Mr. Mayor, you see to it that the law is properly enforced. . . . Give us our rights and we'll quit sitting down. You'll find out we're at least as smart as a jackass. We know even a mule has sense enough to sit down when he's overworked. . . . Henry Ford, you can't stop your workers from joining the union. . . . The best thing for you to do, Henry, is to get ready to do business with your organized workers. . . . We know that nine...
...know when they begin these negotiations how far they eventually can and will go. They usually could clear up the real issues in a couple of hours, but it has gotten to be a habit to talk for days and sometimes weeks. ... I may be wrong, but it's a good bet that nothing like that will attend the meetings of Walter Chrysler and John Lewis. They are too much alike in plain barnyard common sense...
...constitute a "violation of Belgium" and would the Belgians instantly tip off the British what was coming? 4) What about the Belgian territories in East Africa, cattle-growing Ruanda and Urundi, onetime Imperial German colonies, upon which, most Belgians believe, Nazi Germany now has designs about which the British know a great deal...
...Lawrence of Arabia' " observed in Cairo last week the Sheik Mustapha El Maraghi, rector of the Egyptian capital's 1,000-year-old Moslem University. "You credit Lawrence entirely with the success of the revolt of the Arabs against the Turks. You Westerners do not know that not even a hundred Lawrences could have aroused the Arabs against their Caliph, the Turkish Sultan, had it not been for the almost unlimited amount of gold sovereigns Lawrence had at his disposal. There is very little, if anything, a Bedouin would not do for money...
...Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this car is for-to shoot down Fascist snipers. . . . For half an hour we went on in this way, shouting or firing at lighted windows, racing through suspect streets. No one fired on us, thank God! Then they drove us home, running the car right onto the pavement a yard from...