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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no excuse for not offering Latin. ... I wouldn't know a gerund from a syntax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guinea Pigs' Verdict | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...amount of culture in the land and that some of it probably ought to come from one Greater New York station. . . . Doesn't this kind of programming cost us jack we'll never get? You should hear what our treasurer says! If he got real nasty you know what we'd do? We'd blow a tickler in his face, that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: QRX | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...cordial reception to new social ideals and to insure fair treatment for any reform or any reformer who is obviously honest, reasonably intelligent and backed by any considerable minority of the public. How can this be done? How can the newspapers become open-minded? I don't know. They might try to hire as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord on copy desks and in editorial chairs men who are free to make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk by pleasing his High Potency who sits in the mahogany paneled room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Plain-Speaking Spokesman | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas, but the clause was passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind or the kind that the gentleman from Michigan wrote into this bill, we ought to limit the size. We ought to know whether they will build them for one or two or three or for the whole neighborhood. ... If there is any place in the country where they need them it is down in Texas, where you have to drive sometimes 100 miles to get to a filling station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Millions for Relief | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Murr: "Bishop Sproll does not recognize, it would seem, that Divine Providence has appointed Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist ideology to save our nation from the grim chaos of Bolshevism. Instead of bowing humbly to God's will, he was continually talking about persecution and martyrdom. I know that Bishop Sproll covets the halo of a martyr. This halo will not be denied him." Bishop Sproll kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hitler and Providence | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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