Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most of the students are reasonable because they know that the ushers are their equals and not the type hired by Keith's Memorial. Of course, when some of the fellows have five or six ales under their belts they're a bit hard to handle. If a fellow is forced to leave more than three times, no more tickets will be sold to him." The chief trouble with old ladies is their inability to see in the dark. I remember one lady who, temporarily blinded, stretched out her arms and waving them hestitantly fingered the nose and eyes...
Those who have long eyed the virgin territory of the reserved seat section, often wondered how many people successfully crash it. "Not many," said the usher. "After a while we learn to notice which reserved seats are filled and an experienced usher gets to know the set-up at a glance...
...approach it, he turned to the question of NRA: "Overproduction, underproduction and speculation are three evil sisters who distill the troubles of unsound inflation and disastrous deflation. . . . Sober second thought confirms most of us in the belief that the broad objectives of the National Recovery Act were sound. We know now that its difficulties arose from the fact that it tried to do too much. For example, it was unwise to expect the same agency to regulate the length of working hours, minimum wages, child labor and collective bargaining on the one hand and the complicated questions of unfair trade...
...reconvene, a major national issue thus faced the Prime Minister and Sir Thomas Inskip. Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Coordination of Defense, a committee of which the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is chairman. Sir Thomas is an extremely churchy, well-meaning British statesman who has the misfortune to know almost nothing about modern mechanized warfare. He is an expert on the Prayer Book and successfully led a great House of Commons battle against bishops of the Church of England when they wished to "reform" it (TIME, Dec. 26. 1927). In 1936 the two most fateful acts of Mr. Baldwin...
...into that case, U. P. & L. filed suit against its old president for alleged misappropriation of $3,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 7). Cried Mr. Clarke: "Attorneys for Floyd Odium . . . [have] hastily concocted the scandalous story ... to muddle waters and to detract attention." Replied Mr. Odium: "I did not know of the suit until advised by the Press...