Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future...
...Although as it is to be expected, the average college sophomore knows more than the high-school student and the senior more than the sophomore, individual scores run all the way up & down the scale, regardless of the length of schooling. Thus 10% of high-school seniors know more than the average college senior and 22% know more than the average sophomore. A study of a typical college showed that, if degrees were granted on the basis of general knowledge, at the time of the test 28% of the senior class, 21% of the juniors, 19% of the sophomores...
...next to her estranged husband Billy Rose, gaily chatted with him. On the stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether she was in Chicago in 1933 she responded: "I don't know where I was three weeks ago, much less in 1933." Before the afternoon was over Miss Brice had slyly played her hole card. When she was asked what commission is usually paid to an agent, Miss Brice replied: "I'd have to look that up. And you have...
...past, 44-year-old Composer Piston's dry, academic, cacophonous works have drawn hosannas from modernist theoreticians rather than from music-hungry audiences. But even conservatives have admitted that he seemed to know what he was doing, and seemed to be doing it with relentless determination...
These and a string of greater & lesser scoops stretching back a generation have come to Vladimir Poliakoff because he is a brilliant, self-assured, courteous Russian-Jewish gentleman who has ingratiated himself with the most impeccable diplomatic connections in Europe. His recipe: "Know your man ten years before you need him; give more than you take." In London he has profited recently by being thick with the Italian Embassy, perhaps partly because he strikingly resembles a jesting Mussolini. But he is suing the London Daily Worker for criminal libel because it said he was a liaison man in the British...