Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty miles up in the sky there is a cloud of electricity. Tonight, slowly and mysteriously, it will vanish. Professor Roland B. Holt wants to know...
Burke's speech exhibited the advantages which independence found for America. Extensive immigration, he said, would have been impossible under British rule, and America's technical know-how would have been retarded. This industrial efficiency, he said, "is a benefit to mankind...
...that he is out in the open, Congressman Rankin is going to have relatively smooth sailing. Most Senators or Representatives would rather spit on Old Glory than be caught in the act of voting against the Veteran, even if they know that the Rankin plan would make the federal budget a grotesque joke. On Tuesday, for example, the House voted twice to chop the enacting clause out of the pension bill--which would have squelched it--but when Rankin demanded a roll call vote, the opposition vanished as if by magic. The enacting clause was left...
...there definitely is nothing left to say; except that somebody just walked in and wanted to know if Mary Martin was really that good. The answer...
...There are nearly twice as many Harvard men in the Foreign Service as from any other college or university," Ravndal revealed, adding that "this is quite a showing in a field that I know from personal experience to be highly competitive...