Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just have to give it away in taxes." But promoters and crackpots who have set snares for some of Tony Farrell's ready cash have misjudged him: "I'm not a soft touch. These guys around here think I am, but I know what the heck I'm doing...
...wide which goes around the planet's axis in a little less than ten hours. Its speed varies a few yards per second; so do the earth's westerly winds. Both, presumably, are reacting to a common cause-something in the sun. Dr. Panofsky would like to know what...
...added to his former title, Professor Shafer, feeling lonely and at loose ends, wandered into his beehouse. There he began to watch a mud-dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath. She seemed to know exactly what she was about. In a matter of minutes Shafer's admiration was aroused and he found a new and absorbing interest in life. That...
...thing, said Comstock, "learn something about the business you apply to for a job. Know what job to ask for. Don't tell an employer you'll 'do anything' . . . Don't brag and don't bluff. Any successful businessman can spot bragging or bluffing easily. He's been doing it himself all his life...
Back from the wild blue yonder, thousands of veterans jumped into the air transport business after the war. All they needed to set themselves up as irregular nonscheduled airlines was a little capital, some flying know-how, and one or more surplus planes, which the War Assets Administration was eager to sell them cheap. Some of them crashed, and some went broke. But about no nonscheduled lines have been doing well enough with cargo and air-coach services to throw a scare into the big, scheduled airlines...