Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to castigate anyone unfairly, but I would like to know if you misquoted Henry Browne Wallace or if he really did say, "father gets castrated so often in print" [TIME, Oct. 10]. If he did, it is easy to believe that he "reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
...then that the Administration devised a new strategy suggested by canny old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn: 1) keep Congress in session, let it talk itself out, hold its nose to the grindstone, and blame Republican obstructionism for Congress' inaction; 2) let Congress know that if it got down to work on what was left of the Truman program, it could go home...
...political opponents had said he could or could not achieve, Harry Truman had won quite a bit, though it was not nearly as much as he had asked or as he had promised to get. Said he, perhaps mindful of the do-nothing days of early summer: "You know, I'm happy about the record of Congress. It accomplished more than I expected...
...faculty and students of St. Benedict's in a statement signed by the secretary of the School, said last night; "Many of us have at one time or another been associated with Jesuit institutions, and know that their policies of late are motivated more by political expediency than by Christian charity...
...main reason for the savings is that books are classified by size instead of subject matter, which allows twice as many books to be crowded into a certain space. This makes it rather difficult to find books on a certain subject; the seeker must know the position of each separate volume...