Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...council does not know the facts and apparently has made little effort to seek them out. Example: They say, "At present it costs the H.A.A. close to $10,000 to support intercollegiate tennis and squash squads. . . ." This is, although I am sure not deliberately, a definite misstatement of fact. The facts are: (a) The $10,000 includes all coaches' salaries as well as intercollegiate expenses. (b) Over half the members of the squads play House squash and tennis. Please charge $5000 to the Houses. (c) To retain the coaches and eliminate intercollegiate events would save not more than...
...conscious tutors than from any defects inherent in the nature of the profession. Certain practices associated with the loss reputable tutoring schools are definitely malodorous. These include writing papers. These practices should be stamped out, but there are older heads who have observed many generations of college life and know that there is much good that can be done by tutors who consider their work a profession, with the other of a profession...
Tomorrow's program will again be made up entirely of his own works. Of the four numbers on the program only two, the First Piano Sonata (1936) and the Violin and Piano Sonata in E (1935), are know hereabouts. The Violin and Piano Sonata (1939) has just been completed, and the Sonata for Piano Four Hands (1938) has not been heard here. The first Piano Sonata, inspired by Hoelderlin's poem, Der Main, is familiar to Cambridge audiences. Its direct, simple beauty has earned several performances here. The Violin and Piano Sonata in E has not been heard so frequently...
...that time Mr. Cassells had decided that consumers needed to know more than how to tell good peanuts from bad. Soon he had his students not only sallying forth on practice shopping expeditions and investigating advertising, but also studying economics, banking and even Plato's Republic...
What are the landmarks of America? Guidebooks and histories point to battlefields and the birthplaces of celebrities. But plain citizens who know their own towns know landmarks with less elevated associations: skyscrapers, banks, the saloon where the town boss held office, the hotel where politicians made their deals, the street corner where some brilliant newcomer was shot-the miscellaneous, nondescript, undistinguished scenes of local history which old-timers recognize and visitors pass without seeing...