Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week grey-maned Dr. Malcolm Shaw MacLean, dean of University of Minnesota's General College, delivered the famed Inglis Lecture at Harvard, proposed that teaching of arithmetic continue through college. "I know of one nurse," said he, "who gave a child a lethal two-thirtieths of strychnine because there was no bottle containing one-sixtieth...
...flyer is good for only four hours [at a stretch]. The process of developing a first-class pilot is three years. The pilot must know meteorology, radio, aerial machine guns, bombs, battle formation. America today needs 100,000 pilots.* Five years hence, our need will be for 500,000 pilots. We need 30,000 planes before this year is out, 5,000 to be utilized in the schools of instruction in every section of the country. Five years hence, our equipment need will be for 100,000 planes...
...hunting brant, gallinules, coots, dowitchers, turn-stones, godwits, tattlers, certain other more common game birds and animals. Blind, rosy-cheeked Assemblyman Thomas M. Muir of Plainfield asked Assemblywoman Constance W. Hand, sponsor of the bill: "What is a godwit?" Mrs. Hand: "I'm sure I don't know what godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird "much esteemed for the table." The bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Assembly last week after Mrs. Hand...
...There are possibly half-a-dozen men in the automobile industry who know as much about selling automobiles as William C. Cowling, sales manager for Ford until two months ago. Last week, after being emotional about the advantages of driving Fords for 23 years, he put himself in another frame of mind, was elected vice president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. of Toledo...
...arrangement enabled them to see and prove that ultrashort waves heat only the flesh and do not alter the blood vessels of that part of the body exposed to them, and that the electricity produces no effect other than that of pure heat, an important fact for physiotherapists to know...