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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul what the hell did you want my soul for how do you know I have a soul who says so nobody says so but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies." Arrested for driving 37 m.p.h. along London's Victoria Embankment (7 m.p.h. over the speed limit), Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, holder of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...half page of heavy chitchat for the Sunday Express and Daily Express. Sample: "I have had to give up reading bridge articles, because I notice that Y and Z always get the good hands, whereas poor old A and B usually only save a slam by preternatural cunning. I know so well what A and B feel." The two Beaverbrook sons are in the group-Max Jr., general manager of the Sunday Express, and Peter, who spends most of his time automobile racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Empire. On Nov. 20, 1936, Lord Beaverbrook arrived in Manhattan on a trip that was scheduled to take him to Arizona for his asthma. Why, asked ship newsmen, were Beaverbrook's papers sitting on the Edward-Mrs. Simpson story? "Who? Me?" said the Beaver. "I know nothing about Mrs. Simpson." A few hours later he turned around and went back to London, impishly letting it be known that the sea voyage had so benefited him that he might just continue to shuttle back & forth across the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...pictures a Rome badly decayed, ignoble Romans unable to understand what is happening. Rome has fallen but the Romans cannot believe it. The barbarians are running the world, but the Romans do not know it, dare not face it, cannot believe that for once they are just muddling along instead of muddling through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the End | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...honestly say that we have never encountered an intentionally tricky or unreasonably difficult examination. Allowances are always made for students who obviously know their work but do not have time to finish all the questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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