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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME which records all significant things will be interested to know that Thomas R. Amlie of Elkhorn, Wis., candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Progressive ticket, is using sound films in connection with his speaking campaign. In one of the pictures, The River, he demonstrates what the cutting over of forest lands has meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

When one-fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL SERVICE: Post Offices on Wheels | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines, who had been keeping up his spirits by reading his fan mail in court, lost his temper when Weinberg told of conferring with him, cried: "You know you lie!" Thereafter, two respectable witnesses told of seeing Jimmy Hines in company with Dutch Schultz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pop Account | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Freshmen will find that this competition offers not only a great opportunity for getting to know other men, but that it tends to other positions and gives a man a chance to get a lot more out college than he otherwise would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Managerial Competition Not Grind It Used to be in Halcyon Days | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...fellow students. Some of them lived in towers like mine. They have spread out all over, like files, buzzing here, crawling there. None of them know what they want, and are all afraid. Tell me, you are a newcomer here: do you fear anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

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