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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airplanes can sink battleships and the bigger the battleship the bigger the mark. Japan, England and Italy know it. Why are the American people not allowed to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Navy Battle | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...printed a letter from a midshipman signed "W. T. Door." You may be interested to know that this is a pseudonym, equivalent to the civilian's "John Doe." It is taken from the marking found frequently on ship's doors, meaning "watertight door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...happens I have personally known this Margery for many years and positively know her to be all she claims to be; there is no know fraud at all in anything she does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...lived on a county line, had changed his name to draw pensions in both counties; the mother of a $14,000-a-year major league baseballer; a woman at whose home the investigator had been received by a butler. Snorted Representative Jack Nichols of Eufaula: "I didn't know there was a butler in Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Free-for-all | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Master Culbertson, still wary of green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super-Bridge | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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