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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they could identify the corpse in the Hebner cellar. Informed by the Deputy Prosecutor that her Miami friend, Grover, had hoped to marry her, grey-haired, 55-year-old Mrs. Hebner, indicted last week for Hebner's murder, betrayed maidenly confusion. Said she: "Well, I didn't know that. It certainly was nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cupid's Messenger | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the effect of Governor Leche's soothing words, last speaker on the card was Secretary Wallace. His theme: Pan-Americanism is the best safeguard against dictatorships and "we now know there are nations which despise Democracy and which look with longing eyes toward this hemisphere." His blunt conclusion: "This challenge from the dictatorships of Europe caught us unawares. We lost for a time our common purpose, but now it has been restored. Europe, we thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coliseum Fracas | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...other people's money (poor suckers). But the sheen is still present, although better disguised. Sometimes it is in the face, where the smile is false and automatic, sometimes in drooping shoulder or eyelid, or in unjustified hauteur. No dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe begin to pinch his corn. But, under pain of dismissal, not until the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

Hicks was quoted as saying that "I am a Communist. I expect to remain a Communist. But if I know my Harvard boys, my personal opinions or beliefs won't matter a bit. I might add, I never used the classroom as a propaganda agency, and I don't intend to start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks Tempest Brings Forth Tax Bill Hitting Harvard Exemption | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

Since it is the function of the tutorial system not only to bring order out of the chaos of specialized courses but also to provide a link between the student and his distressingly impersonal department, it is obvious that the tutor must come to know his tutee and the problems with which he is faced. In the past, some departments have suffered from an inadequate number of men available for tutorial duty, unless some change in policy is made before the beginning of next year that spectre will again be hunting University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOO MANY COOKS | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

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