Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapidly changing world we cannot know in advance what crises may arise in our lives, he explained, "but at least we should know that in the order of nature they must come to us" and we must be prepared to take them in stride...
...songs, with Duke Ellington behind him, Billy was to get a respectable $2,000 a week. Said his manager last week: "Before that appearance, if the Paramount had offered us an option for next year at $3,000, we would have snapped it up. Now, we don't know how much to ask for him from week to week...
...assembled U.S. executives plenty to think about. He said he would probably be called pro-labor for saying it, but in the labor disputes he has sat in on, "labor is always better prepared with facts & figures than management." Often the people who represent management "do not know what the score...
...country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie's tenderness and Robert Louis Stevenson's romance flocked after a new hero who could give them the illusion of a jovial literary know-it-all in the midst of the noisy, shimmying Jazz...
...Behind the Curtain, the faults of the Gunther system are more noticeable than the virtues. Written after a six-month trip through Eastern Europe, Behind the Curtain says little of. importance about its fascinating subject that newspaper and magazine readers are not likely to know. It has less insight into national behavior and outlook than the Inside books, and few ideas not readily found in the U.S. left-of-center press...