Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the article on the Reader's Digest in your issue of Nov. 2, it might be of news interest to your readers to know that a complete issue of that periodical is published simultaneously in Braille by the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville. There is very slight resemblance in format as the greater bulk necessitated by the embossed letters results in three volumes, each 13½ in. by 11 in. and over an inch thick, instead of the pocket-size edition for those who can see. Originally each issue was incorporated in one volume...
...should say," replied the distinguished attorney, "that the manufacturers were the immediate instruments through which they became unemployed, but that the basic cause . . was due to the fact that-I know no better way to say it-we live in an ever changing world...
...diplomats of the humorless Japanese Empire ever know quite how impudently they are being negotiated with by silkily-polite Chinese statesmen, all of whom seem to have a sense of humor as irrepressible as the Chinese countenance is expressionless...
...mixture as exactly as by chemical analysis. In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely in arrangement than it resembles its own gaseous form, steam. "We are just beginning to know what water is," he said wryly, "although we have been calling it H2O for more than a century...
Another and just as effective way of pushing profits beyond the reach of the tax collector is to pay bonuses to workers. As a matter of practical industrial relations it is almost imperative to give employes something extra when they know that stockholders are being showered. Bonuses, ranging from the $10,000,000 appropriated by General Motors last fortnight to common Christmas presents planned in hundreds of little businesses, have a greater vogue this year than ever before...