Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monday, five-foot, seven Inch Shepard climbed upstairs from the bare type of office the H.A.A. is prone to give its coaches in the Indoor Athletic Building, and began sorting out fifty competent larger varsity candidates. So far," he says, rustling a typewritten varsity roster, "I don't even know their names. I'll just have to drill them every day until I know what they...
...interested in your article and editorial on Glen Shortliffe's difficulties with the U. S. immigration officials, and am writing to tell you what I know about his work and opinions. I was an undergraduate at Queen's University from 1945-48, knew Shortliffe slightly, audited his lectures occasionally, and heard him speak numerous times at forums and public meetings...
...government of the provice of Saskatchewan and the Official Opposition in Ontario and British Columbia. He often speaks at the Kingston branch of the CCF and has been a frequent news commentator on the national hookup of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (a government department). As far as I know he hasn't alarmed anyone but the Tory newspapers in Montreal and Toronto, and the Canadian Manufacturers Association...
...then queried me about Indo-China, concerning which I know practically nothing, as I told him. He also asked me whether I should prefer a dictatorship of the right or the left in France. My response that I should want no dictatorship of either extreme failed to satisfy him and he insisted that I choose...
...that all the immigration service has against Shortliffe? Very possibly not, for the visa was approved on June 20--after that experience. Sometime in the next four days (the exclusion order was dated June 24) the authorities changed their minds. Why they changed their minds is important to know. Unless strong evidence is made public, the only reasonable conclusion is that Shortliffe was barred by whim and small-minded officiousness...