Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the other Committees is the Foreign Students Committee which has under way its project of a cooperative house to help foreign students learn to know each other and to meet American fellow students. The house will also be started to help provide for good living quarters at reasonable prices...
...continued, "we do not see the war as a finality. The last war was not an end but a beginning. It was not a sea at the end of time. You know what has to be done now will still have to be done after the war; the war will not relieve you of the responsibility of doing...
...Things they most needed to know in their jobs were how to write business letters, how to plan work for others, how to prepare statistical reports, how to interpret economic trends...
...fourth needed to know how to make a speech...
...asked, "How many words do you know?" most educated adults will grossly underestimate their own vocabularies. Dr. Robert H. Seashore, Northwestern University, found (by judicious sampling) that average college students could recognize 61,000 basic and 96,000 derivative terms in an unabridged dictionary, a total of 157,000 words; bright students could recognize 190,000. Dr. Seashore pointed out that in the days of Shakespeare (whose working vocabulary has been given by scholars as 15,000 words) the English language was much smaller than...