Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capital? The Economist wants to know how a state that takes 40% of all income is going to find enough savings to maintain its capital. "The harassed Chancellors of the Exchequer of the future will be hard enough put to it to balance their [current] books, without putting on still more taxes to provide a fund of public savings...
...until he was past 50 and had eight great symphonies to his credit. Mennin's Fourth, "The Cycle," was an ambitious choral symphony in which he worked out the chorus in all three movements instead of just the last (as Beethoven did in his Ninth). Said Mennin: "I know a piece that takes so many performers is impractical, but I wanted to write it anyway...
...years later, back at New Haven, he began his teaching of 18th Century literature. He found it easy to follow the rule he gave would-be scholars: "You must fall in love with your subject." In time, he came to know as much about Johnson and Boswell as any man alive. His own boots, including the Tinker edition of Boswell's letters, were milestones in 18th Century scholarship, outdated only by the further probings of Chauncey Tinker himself. It was he who, tracing the leads all the way to Ireland in 1925, first confirmed the existence of the great...
...Teapot. Book publishers said such a bureau would not work, but many were delighted with the S.R.L. story. Said Executive Editor Lee Barker of Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...
...Charles G. Ross, the President's long-faced press secretary, did not smile. He did not know that the photographers had arranged the flight with one of the President's naval aides. Ross confiscated the photographers' plates and 400 feet of movie film, because nobody had his permission for the trip...