Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beneath the Dictator's dignity last week to notice or answer Exile Trotsky, but Stalin did address himself to a different school of outside critics. Many of these are Socialists, Liberals and Democrats vaguely sympathetic with some Communist aspirations but on the whole suspicious. They know that Soviet propaganda has for months been grinding on the theme that "this is the most Democratic constitution in the world," but, although it grants universal suffrage for the first time in Russian history, they have wanted to know whether it also restores freedom to organize various political parties or leaves all power...
Ward's board chairman is Frank Hawley Ward (grandson), who has a keen eye for fossils, seldom sees one whose name and habitat he does not know. President Gamble, onetime Cornell zoologist, got commercial experience in a Chicago biological supply house. The staff numbers 35 employes of whom nine are women...
Negroes who want to hide their markings daub themselves with black coffee, potassium permanganate solution or dilute iodine. Will Pickens White last week indicated that he would never tint his whiteness. Said he: "God intended to let people know what He could do. Now that I am white, I would rather stay that...
...week was a note: "This is Billy; take good care of him." On the back of the note was a picture of Billy and his one-time owner, Marian Leaders, 4, of Mineola, Iowa, who had raised him on a bottle. An Armour employe promised that Billy would "never know a moment of pain." In the slaughterhouse, Billy, like hundreds of others of his kind, was strung up by his heels on a moving chain. A muscular butcher seized his head, twisted it to one side, snapped. On rolled the chain, carrying broken-necked, painless Billy out to be carved...
Disillusioning to customers but useful for them to know is that "a pawnbroker never lends money on the basis of what the customer paid for the article. If it's jewelry, we lend only on the actual value of the gold or silver...