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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writer E. P. Holton . . . hits the nail right on the head. . . . Great Britain, no doubt, would readily agree to this method of paying those old war debts. We know she wants to pay but just never seems to be able to get the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Hicks states that "the occasion of my resignation is the Soviet-German pact" but he continues that he cannot condemn nor support the pact because he does not know "what is going on in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks Resigned Because He Can Not "Be Effective" in Communist Party | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...them; recognize them by their clothes, their hair-cuts, the way they use their hands. Brilliant scholars, lots of these, every fourth man the head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...know, I've been around a bit, further than the New Lecture Hall. The Vagabond was eager now, champing at the bit. He was preparing to tell how he--typical in his own opinion--had been received variously out in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...people know much about Machiavelli except that he sired the sinister adjective Machiavellian. Even those who know a little more differ widely about him. Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy's struggle for unity. Others, like Author Valeriu Marcu, consider Machiavelli a single-track political mind whose curious obsession with the pure mechanics of power is his first-class ticket to genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Politician | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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