Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know of no reason to think otherwise," growled John Lewis...
Scandalized Laborites, who consider Lord Perth (former Ambassador to Italy) an arch-appeaser, though others who know him claim he is not pro-Fascist, merely pro-British, demanded to know if there was going to be "censorship." Promised the Prime Minister: "There will be no interference with the British Press by that department." He announced that its peacetime function would be to spread British propaganda overseas...
...Russia by Professor T. D. Lysenko, a practical trial-&-error plant breeder of the school of Luther Burbank. It has been defended by Professor N. I. Vaviloff, an academic geneticist of international repute. The letter-writing students admired practical Lysenko, scorned academic Vaviloff. That the Kremlin Government does not know just what to make of this howdydo is evident from the fact that both Lysenko and Vaviloff have been permitted to air their views in the Soviet press...
Best thing in The Sculptor's Way is Author Putnam's pellucid outline of human and animal anatomy. An acknowledged expert on the subject, she believes that sculptors should know it thoroughly before they go in for compositions in mere "mass" or abstraction. Her favorite point: that any animal's bony structure is essentially the same as man's. A horse's hocks are his heels; birds have knees...
Princetonians know Jack Crocker, now 39, as a big, dark-haired, broad-browed man who looks like Napoleon in his youth, likes his exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of two famed Harvard athletes) who sometimes needs to remind him where he parked his car. An earnest student, a disciple of Humanist Paul Elmer More, Crocker is a practitioner of "muscular Christianity." In this he resembles old Dr. Peabody, who used to play games with his students...