Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both naive and stupid if we believe that the way to prepare intelligent young men to face the world is to try to protect them from such ideas while they are in college. Four years spent in an insulated nursery will produce gullible innocents, not tough-minded realists who know what they believe because they have faced the enemies of their beliefs . . . We have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students. We have confidence in the strength . . . of American democracy. There is no danger from an open communist which is half so great as the danger from those...
Welcker likened the present administration's economic planners to drunks who are on a spending spree. They mean well, he said, but their spending is not wise. "Planners don't know all the answers," Welcker declared...
...move outdoors as soon as the temperature hits 45 or 50," McInnis said yesterday. "But you know this New England weather--it may snow tomorrow." Until the mercury does climb, McInnis must conduct his daily two-hour workouts in the hazy confines of the Cage...
Those who know something about the construction of rinks say this figure is not exorbitant, and say further, that if started in the near future, an Arena could be ready for next hockey season. Of course, having a rink built...
...battered Winchester, confronts the man who shot his brother in the back. The most feared desperado of the Old West glares a vengeful glare at his quavering victim and snarls in deadly tones: "I could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin to his fate worse than death...