Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skiers who like to ride up and slide down will be interested to know that the New Hampshire State Planning Commission in a recent bulletin stated that there are now 47 ski-tows in operation, an increase of fifty percent. Furthermore, an Owners' Association of operators has been formed to raise the price of daily tickets. This infant industry has not been making money, and owners complain that with equipment costing up to $2,000 and weekly overhead averaging $140, they are hardly clearing expenses. A take of $250 a week is necessary for a profit of $1,000 over...
Although she know Americans in Turkey and mot many on the American Export Liner, Exeter, on the way across, this is Miss Pishmish's first visit to America. When asked what she thought of the feasibility of bringing German student refugees to the United States and to Harvard especially, she reapplied, "Although I am not a refugee, speaking as a foreign student I think it a splendid idea,. I should like to help it possible...
...always wondered what he should be thankful for on Thanksgiving. If he said he was thankful for his new roller-skates, God would think he was easily satisfied. And if (in this Year of Grace) he pulled in some big, white, fluffy word like "peace," God would know he was just another hypocrite praying through...
...Harvard senior, one of those rare personages who occasionally turn up to confound the "how many steps are there on your front porch see you don't know although you climb them every day" dictum of modern psychologists, recently sat in his room, desperately put to pass the time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed...
...First important native play was The Contrast, in which the homespun hero, disdaining fashionable life, states his preference for "Tabitha, her Bible, a cow, and a little peaceable bundling." In an early Negro play, the white author's ear for dialogue produced: "I don't know what ole missee can see in him to make her likee him so much but I must holee my tongue...