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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen were unhappy. What most of them wanted last week was not relief from upped labor costs but relief from uncertainty. From a Detroit hotel which feared that elevator boys who serve traveling salesmen were engaged in interstate commerce, to a Texas turkey raiser who wanted to know whether employes who gathered his turkey eggs had to get 25? an hour, employers were in a dither to know whether the law applied to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Chairman and president respectively of the world's greatest retail distribution organization, the Brothers Hartford have each spent more than 50 years in the grocery business and can justly claim to know more about it than anybody else. But since they had never before been noted for knowledge of public relations, U. S. Business was dumfounded when the two crusty capitalists not only laid their cards on the table with effective dignity but set something of a precedent by openly announcing that, since they knew nothing much about public relations, they had hired someone who did-Publicist Carl Byoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Colorado No | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Huey, the Morey thinks, the more he's Fearon' cause the bigger they are the Harder they fall. If you want to know the score its Harvard 20 - Yale...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: LOOK FOR HUEY IN THE BOWL HE'LL HAVE THE LADLE | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

Speaking of the characteristics of the two teams, he said, "There is no bad blood. The going is plenty tough, but you don't seem to mind because there is good feeling all around. Generally there is close similarity between the men playing on both teams. They don't know when to quit; they fight till they drop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Eli David Colwell Predicts Yale Win, or Loss by Large Score Saturday | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...tradition. Cultural life today is a unity, although every country has her own tasks to fulfill. We need to have the courage to become conscious of ourselves; then we are able to form a tradition, necessary for every epoch. The most important thing is for those who govern to know what is happening, for them to see the unity of the past and future--the others will see it through them. We need a nucleus of the intellectual and spiritual elite. If we can produce this at Harvard, for instance, we can help to produce a unified, conscious culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giedion--- | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

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