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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Marster's age must remain a secret. For although she readily admitted it early in the interview, she later asked that it not be printed since it was against the wishes of the Managing Editor, whose office is adjoining Ann's, that the public know that she is 23 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Marsters Admits Old Fascination For Undergraduates but Thrill Is Gone | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

Replying to the query how she obtained information for her Primer for Freshmen printed last fall, she said modestly, "Oh, I know quite a few boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Marsters Admits Old Fascination For Undergraduates but Thrill Is Gone | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

...have mentioned the stabilizing value of a knowledge of history: by this I do not mean that a study of history makes one a conservative, let alone a reactionary. . . . But both parties are wiser if they know their own past and that of their opponents. It was a statesman who was also a philosopher who wrote, 'No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. To make anything very terrible obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT RESOUNDS PLEA FOR FURTHER STUDY OF HISTORY | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

...even eclipsing the Chicago World's Fair. Many a newspaper reader thought Lizzie innocent, but the majority in Fall River thought otherwise. One of the many current jokes about the case: on Aug. 4 somebody asked Miss Lizzie the time of day. Said she: "I don't know, but I'll go and ax Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forty Whacks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...superior relay team. But we were wrong when we thought it would be the crucial event. Perhaps the turning point that sent the meet in Harvard's direction, if there can be a turning point in a steady procession, was when Rus Greenhood won the dive. Those who know the Crimson Sophomore best felt sure he would win: others thought of Endweiss, but it was the Harvard lad all the way when the competition began...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick All-League Hoop Team; Mermen Topple Yale | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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