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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the description of conditions in Russia and of Stalin given by New Bolshevik Butenko, it is not difficult to understand why he figured it was best for him to skip. Excerpts: "I personally attended many of those treason trials in Russia. . . . I know better than anyone else the horrible tortures with which the Bolsheviks have taken the lives of many worthy and innocent persons. . . . The Bolsheviks promised the people of Russia full and complete liberty and autonomy. They even proclaimed the 'free right of the different regional nationalities to leave at their will the Soviet Federation.' Every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: New Bolshevik | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Bill, I've got you a triple threat! And is he a corker! He's kind of old, but he's still got plenty of football left in him. He has played on about every semi-pre outfit around here (but he's smart enough to know how to be an amateur when the occasion demands, Bill) and he's burned up every league he's ever been in. There is the usual catch in this case, Bill, as in every other, viz, the boy's a little dumb, in fact he is awful dumb. What will we do? What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Letters Revealed Slated for Conant, Bock, Bingham; Missives Were Addressed but Never Reached Destination | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...impossible to make any accurate predictions of the calibre of this year's crew until the stroke gets higher. So far it has not gone above 23 strokes per minute. Bolles is confident that he will know the true value of this year's crop of oarsmen after the vacation practice. Unless the weather becomes warmer Bolles will not raise the stroke, until the first race of the year with M.I.T. and Rutgers on the Charles on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...even the bare rudiments of hospitality. If it had not been for one or two public spirited Harvard racquetmen, the Englishmen would have had no actual contact with this University until the match began. In fact, there might have been no match at all, as they did not even know where to inquire about the time and place of the encounter. The one or two racquetmen, however, forsook their study for hour examinations, took their visitors to supper, and put them up in their rooms or those of friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENAGERIE | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...second floor the red light went out so he pushed the button and the machine started up again, but just as he was about to open the door it started up a second time. Someone above had beat him to it. But little did either of them know that the professor who had decided not to wait and was trying to get out was still imprisoned in the elevator. The student found that out when he craftily pulled open the door as the elevator went down past the second floor, to find this professor at violent odds with the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

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