Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under those circumstances, what would you expect the President, as the lead er and spokesman of his party to do? ... He is merely saying ... 'If you be lieve in the Administration, do not send these men back.' ... I know the President. . . . Adulation has not made him arrogant, defeat has not made him timid. What we have to decide is whether ... we want to abdicate the stronghold of Democracy or to fight for it. And I think we, too, have 'only just begun to fight...
Letter from Mr. Noyes to Cardinal Hinsley: "So far as I know, it is the first time in history that any English writer of any standing, or indeed any English writer who in his work-whatever his personal failures may be-has reverenced 'conscience as his king.' has had such an order addressed to him in such terms...
...tremendous sensation whistling over the salt at 347 miles an hour. Whistling is the only word I know to describe it." Thus spoke mustachioed, 41-year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, British auto racer, after driving his seven-ton, eight-wheeled, 3,600-h.p. Thunderbolt 13 miles along a black line on Utah's famed Bonneville salt flats one morning last week. His time for the measured mile (preceded by six to speed up and six to slow down) was the fastest land mark ever made-*-36 miles an hour faster than the world's record...
...judiciary; an article may constitute contempt even if the judge involved never sees it; the question is not what effect the article did have but what effect it might have had; contempt is committed if an article "places the judge in such a position that he will never know whether he was unconsciously biased by its publication"; a case is pending and cannot be commented upon while it is still open to modification, rehearing and appeal...
...business section and preferably on the ground floor. Another is that no Centre may consist merely of a gallery; it has to have studios and work shops, too. A third is that the Centre, once opened, shall relate its exhibitions and teaching directly to what everybody knows in the community, not to what everybody ought to know. High-hatting is taboo...