Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper deck structure, and extend the periscope a little. It's an aircraft carrier. I see two airplanes. I see destroyers. I know it will be a tough task. But hurt the enemy whenever...
While Parliament bandied witticisms, almost forgetting there was a war in Europe, British journals grew increasingly bitter. They wanted more newsmen, fewer admirals in the Ministry. Said the Yorkshire Post: "We do not know who conceived the Ministry of Information but it was strangled in red tape at birth." The Daily Express exclaimed: "Soon we will need leaflet raids on Britain to tell our own people how the War is going!" Thoroughly disgusted, the National Union of Journalists uttered a resolution: "Under present conditions the Ministry is both a national scandal and a national danger...
...such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know the benefits and dangers of every type of anesthetic; local anesthesia, for example, should not be used in malignant tumor operations, or in the presence of infection, for the anesthetic needle may pick up cancerous cells and start the "seeding" of tumors, or it may injure healthy cells and make...
Question before the house was whether democracy's schools are a match for dictatorship's. Panic-stricken by the dictatorships' single-track efficiency in grinding out Nazis, Communists who know just what is expected of them, most of Survey Graphic's experts gloomily concluded that democracy's schools are not at the moment prepared to meet the competition. Because U. S. schools (like the U. S. people) do not pretend to know all the answers, these experts proposed that what U. S. Education needs is a big blue print...
...Educators know not where they are going, says Eduard C. Lindeman: "Current discussions of educational goals seem to me to have reached a stage of utter confusion...