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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adds up to this, TIME: somewhere in America are the family and friends of a young man who died in Manchuria; they may know of his Russian wife, and of his daughter. They are probably readers of TIME-what student of world affairs is not? and through its medium they may release the girl from her life of tragedy. Any correspondence on this subject may be forwarded to me in Portales, New Mexico, or directly to the C. I. M. Hospital at Anshuen, Kweichow, South China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Just a few lines to let you know I am well fed up with your line of Smart Aleck stuff. Your article on Great Britain [King George VI] in the May 15 issue is about as raw, fresh, uncalled for and unfriendly as anything I've read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...regard to the quality of Harvard teaching, the editorial states, "Harvard teachers--brilliant as they may be in research, letter writing, New Deal committee work, etc.--just don't seem to know much about teaching. Bliss Perry taught at Harvard; but few men have done so since then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Threatens Harvard 'Freedom' | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...Grey may not have lobbied for A. G. & E. but in Washington he is considered a lobbyist. A steely-eyed gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Mixer | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Chinese saw doom in the blood-red discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of Nationalist ships overhead. Fighting tribesmen in Palestine know they must take to cover whenever attack planes sweep down on them with the blue-white-&-red wing targets of Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Signs of Death | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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