Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this blazing sun is gold and yellow, right from the start. The air is crystal clear. Am I imagining? Maybe. Maybe not. Altitude does funny things to people. Some laugh foolishly. Some get cracky, with as little reason. What does it do to me? I don't know. My mind is inside itself and can't see its image without some kind of a mirror...
...over the U. S. last week people were suffering sore throats, fever, aching eyes, back pains. They went home, stayed in bed two or three days, felt better, got up. There was probably no one in the nation who, if he escaped these symptoms, did not know someone who had not. Nevertheless, due to its short duration and apparent lack of killing power, health officials in all principal U. S. cities unanimously hesitated to dignify the widespread respiratory malady by describing it as an influenza epidemic...
Soothed Dr. Little, one of whose major jobs is to direct the American Society for the Control of Cancer: "We know so little about how cancer is inherited that there is no cause for fear and dread, and there is no basis for predictions concerning inheritance of cancer in any individual case...
Last year Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute weakened this theory by crystallizing the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco and tomato plants. So far as scientists know, living matter never crystallizes. Thus...
...break the world record. He had already competed in four events that day; his .best previous time for 1,500 metres was 4 min. 47 sec. In a wildly exciting race, against Belgium's Boulanger, who, though the crowd of 80,000 did not know it, had no chance to beat his total, Morris finished first in 4:33.2. Disgusted with himself, he was walking off the track when officials called him back. An error in computing his earlier points meant that he had set a new world's decathlon record with 7,900 points. Currently returned...