Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each. Similarity in method makes for consistency in accomplishment. The superficial coaching in the dramatic, narrative, and like forms of composition could well be eliminated, and instead more time given to the fundamental art of exposition. It is more to the point of a Harvard degree that the undergraduate know how to compile bibliographies, take notes, organize papers, and use a simple, clear style than to imitate Hemingway and Joyce. If Harvard desires well-rounded graduates, full of distribution and concentration, it must establish a course in practical writing for Freshmen and urge, at least, the taking of some composition...
...time that all people whom you have got beneath your tyranny should know that your prolonged and absurd resistance is only a means to prepare your escape. It seems unnecessary to say it, since everyone knows it, that you are beaten! Each day you prolong your resistance, each additional life you waste, every fresh home you sacrifice, each new crime you commit is a new count in the indictment you will be brought to face before our justice. For we have...
...because of income tax interest was the U. S. involved in the Savarona's sale last week but rather because, in a transfer of a U. S. ship to foreign registry, the U. S. Maritime Commission must know to what purpose, whether bellicose or not, the ship is to be put. Two bids were made for the ship, one by the Turks, the other by an unnamed German. Although it appeared the German bid might win, the required information about the future use of the ship was not supplied. The Maritime Commission was thus able to presume that...
...students, Oliver Brooks and Douglas H. Robinson, appeared at Cambridge's City Hall, lugging between them the fresh carcass of a seal. They said they had shot the seal in Marblehead Harbor, demanded $2 for killing it from the City Treasurer. When Treasurer William J. Shea wanted to know what it was all about, the students referred him to an old Massachusetts statute, passed in 1888. Treasurer Shea spent an hour hunting up the statute, found it, paid the $2. He also learned that the law required him to cut off and burn the seal's nose...
Givers of gratuitous advice are usually not very popular. If they give it to young, ambitious girls, they encounter another difficulty: they seem either presumptuous, as if doubtful of the talents, charm and intelligence of the girls they are advising, or sentimental in assuming that modern girls do not know what it is all about. In Listen Little Girl Munro Leaf, 32-year-old author of Ferdinand (bestselling children's book), avoids these hazards by dismissing moral and emotional considerations at the outset, tells his girls what they can expect to find in Manhattan in the way of jobs...