Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground that they alone knew how to solve all social problems and only needed power to carry out the solutions. They regarded their assertion of omniscience as essential to political prestige. Today a new attitude has appeared in America; political leaders have plainly said that they did not know beforehand the solutions to all the problems but merely wished to have power to try various experimental policies...
...following one of his political defeats. The card reads: "A Lincoln, Attorney and Councillor at Law, Springfield, Ill. To Whom It May Concern. My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense Law, Make Jokes, Split Rails, and perform other matters in a small...
...grace, the value and purpose of a college magazine, Youth, he says, in the leading article in the first issue, "An Apology for Being Precocious," can bring to experience what experience can not give, and what it too often kills. Youth has the gift of prophecy. It may not know well what is, but it has the right to say what ought to be. It is the time to be radical. "Especially when some storm is brewing in the world the words of ardent young men may bring premonitory flashes of light or anger, impossible to suppress, and important...
There is no denying the fact of specialization and its progressive intensity. But there is likewise no denying its miring effect on the intellect and the crusty narrow insolence of the specialist who may know his field but little else. The theme is all-pervading, whether the man be a worker turning one bolt on a factory belt or a student of history endlessly annotating the private life of Napoleon...
...essence, Mr. Crowther's philosophy resembles President Conant's. The planning of the University Professorships is directly traceable to the necessity for broader, free, and more embracive thinking, with particular reference to the increasing complexity and specialization of contemporary society. A physicist must know more than atomic structure, a pianist more than his keyboard, a politician more than his patronage system, a laborer more than his chain-belt. He must also attempt to understand the interrelationship of them all. Hence the demand for new leaders, whether they be philosophic journalists of untrammeled professors...