Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious to know what rewrite man is responsible and hope you can convey my orchids. I notice a resemblance to the famous Coolidge "Obit" and I wonder if it was the same writer or if TIME'S school of journalism makes Maupassants of all its writers...
...will youse guys cut that row? Waddaye think dis is?" then with a reverent motion towards Kirkland, "Youse pro'bly didn't know dat some of de greatest brains in dis country was woikin in dese very walls." And in almost ethereal silence the garbage crew, much chastened, continued to ply their tasks with the thought of some of the greatest minds in the world right at work, not twenty feet away, still buzzing in their heads...
...must protest at the CRIMSON reprinting of an article in "Time" on Harvard Tutoring Schools which was obviously based on information supplied by a malicious and prejudiced person. Many editors of the CRIMSON must know that Parker-Cramer has never in any way been connected with the "pay as you pass" plan. That plan was tried several seasons ago by a rival tutoring school...
...year ago last March Congress ordered the Federal Communications Commission to look into American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largely because it never had been investigated before. An original $750,000 appropriation became $1,150,000, and FCC investigators began to find out all there was to know about the monopolistic Bell System. One thing they found out was that over a 22-year period A. T. & T. had earned 10.9% on its long-distance business. Last January A. T. & T. "voluntarily" reduced rates on night and Sunday long-distance calls, knocked $4,000,000 off the U. S. telephone subscribers...
...saloon keeper kept him drunk for three weeks, got him to sell his claim for $1,000 and three barrels of whiskey. When he found The Harrisburg soon after he became a partner in the company formed to work it, taking stock which he did not know was assessable. Author Coolidge hired Shorty Harris to guide him across the Valley to Death Valley Scotty's ranch. Shorty ran true to tradition by getting lost. They traveled hard all day, made a dry camp after dark, found the next morning that they had slept almost beside the spring they were...