Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many people know, a wet bulb thermometer is a thermometer whose bulb is surrounded by a knitted cotton tube, with its end dipped in water which keeps the bulb moist. In a draft (about three feet per second or over) evaporation reduces the temperature, and from the amount of such reduction and the reading of the dry bulb thermometer the humidity is computed...
...good friend of Franklin Roosevelt who has announced that there is a place for Liberal Republicans in his future plans for the nation. Last week Mayor LaGuardia was in the midst of a transcontinental tour after which thousands of voters in the deep South, Southwest and California will know him better...
They have struck oil in the theatre often enough, but there have been a few spills. There was Betsy, the flop they did for Ziegfeld. "Ziegfeld should have been a movie producer. He didn't know the first thing about music, yet he constantly butted in on the scores." Ten Cents a Dance, the biggest plum they got out of another Ziegfeld show, Simple Simon, they "practically slipped in over Ziegfeld's head...
...With regard to ... the immorality trials, I am of the opinion that these were not particularly effective in Germany proper, and that therefore we should be careful and not accept every accusation as actual fact. You know that the Jewish world press is very vigilant, and makes use of every unfounded accusation against the clergy as grounds for a savage campaign against National-Socialist Germany...
Politely omitted from the Druggist's copy are the names of its two principal targets-lean, freckled, didactic Frederick John Schlink, of Washington, N. J., and dark, intense Arthur Kallet of Manhattan. Earnest consumers know that Engineers Schlink and Kallet began a beautiful friendship in 1928 when both were working for American Standards Association; made it pay in 1933 by co-authoring a best-selling expose of advertising fakes and frauds (100,000,000 Guinea Pigs); ended it in bitterness in 1935 when Kallet backed a strike of technicians and office workers at Schlink's Consumers' Research...