Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know we want to have the dance if we possibly can," Genn said, "but there are still several organizational difficulties we have to iron out before we can make a definite announcement that an all-college dance will be a reality...
...painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until, in 1917, it was sold to a café on the Rue des Petits Carreaux. What happened after that, how the painting eventually got to the bistro outside Paris, nobody seemed to know...
...think-and hence to talk clearly-a man must not only be conscious of the abstracting process, but he must also know the nature of a fact. He must remember that he never knows all about a "fact": there is always, as the count says, the "etc." Secondly, a fact (pencil x or John Smith) is not the same today as it was yesterday. A, despite Aristotle, is not always A. Therefore, "you must not think 'I am going in to dinner now,' " says the count. "You must think, 'I, February 1949, am going in to dinner...
When buxom, 35-year-old Soprano Welitsch bounced into rehearsal, singers and musicians alike picked up more glow. Actress as well as singer, she seemed to know how Strauss's libidinous, necrophilic Salome (based on Oscar Wilde's play) should be portrayed. Says Welitsch with rapid gestures to head, heart and torso: "To sing Salome, you have to have something-here and here and here...
Yaleman Stewart, who succeeded his father as president of the A.C. & Y., got his transportation know-how by building his road into one of the most successful short-line carriers in the U.S. Last year it netted about $1,000,000. His conveyor belt, he thinks, will do even better. To finance it, he has already lined up backers who will put up the $210 million construction cost, and take bonds which Stewart hopes to pay off in 20 years. Stewart intends to start building his conveyor in a year, have it running in three...