Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time after an attack of "valley fever," about one patient in 500 develops symptoms of tuberculosis: enlargement of lymph nodes, lesions of the bones. Large ulcers develop all over the body and after extended suffering, 50% of the patients die. Medicine can offer them no help, for doctors know little of the course of the disease...
...LONG LAST LOVE (Larry Clinton; Victor). Melody-of -the-month, from Cole Porter's as yet un-Manhattanized Yon Never Know'. Also, Liberty Music Shop presents on one disc six tunes from the show as recorded by Cy Walter...
Before their hands ever manage a steering wheel, many New York school children will know that acceleration, not braking, is the way to control skidding; that the best way to start on an icy surface is in high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light...
Said Cotton Mather II, as Cotton I never would have: "I know when I'm licked...
...know myself," he wrote exuberantly to his older brother, "I can't fail." Meanwhile he thought he and his brother ought to be more respectful to their mother, should quit snubbing their kid brother Brooks ("we ought to try our hardest to tolerate the child'') and that his own allowance should be increased...