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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to gather four years in one's mind and know it for its worth. Four years in a senior's mind seem now a day at the circus, and another day must pass before the infinite variety of sights and sounds can be related to the happenings to which they rightfully belong, and their meaning thus felt. To the seniors, the Class of '39, who march from Holworthy to the Sever Quadrangle this morning, four years are expressed only in the alternate silence and laughter flowing through the line. To-day they are singularly joyous at a climax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND BEGIN THE PURSUIT . . . . | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Concrete v. Abstract. Few men in the world know more about the workings of the human brain than grey-locked Neurologist Kurt Goldstein, formerly of the University of Berlin, now at New York City's vast Montefiore Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brains and Drunks | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Other patients, when shown a square and a triangle and asked to draw them, reply that they do not know what these abstract symbols are. But instead of a separate square and triangle they draw with facility a crude house, with a square body and a triangular roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brains and Drunks | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Juan, P. R., Judge Robert Cooper asked an eight-year-old witness: "Do you know what an oath is? What will happen to you if you tell a lie?" The boy: "I'll get warts." The Judge: "I think he is qualified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...fair with me when you keep him the nights he is supposed to be home. . . . Last night was my night and I was supposed to go with him to cash his check and shop. You took my place. Is that fair? . . . He is coming home Monday or I will know why. I am getting hardboiled, (signed) Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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