Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides, said the council, many of those who take these drugs "become drowsy or even fall asleep while at work or ... driving cars or operating machinery. Experience with these drugs is not yet long enough to know whether or not they are harmless when used over long periods of time. Furthermore, the amounts taken in persistent colds may be definitely beyond what has been established as safe." As a guardian of the public's welfare, the council promised to look further into the controversial matter...
...custom and power. In putting each in its Christian place, he is not afraid to expose himself to the fire power of experts in the various fields. He tells scientists that there is nothing wrong with their subject except that it has grown too big for its britches. "Science knows what is, it does not know what ought to be ... Speaking in general, science in our day claims more room within the totality of human life than it is entitled to. Instead of serving, it dominates; instead of subordinating itself, it wants to subordinate the whole of life; that...
...second time in his career) the American League's award as Most Valuable Player of the year. Boston was pleased, but Manhattan sportwriters erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York Yankees, e.g., Shortstop Phil Rizzuto or Relief Pitcher Joe Page. One reason: the voting took place a few days before the end of the season, before the collapse...
...steadily more accurate-and at the same time steadily less effective. But Big Jake, seven years older and wiser than 21-year-old Pancho, had the explanation: "I wait a little longer on his serve and I've quit guessing where it's going to go. I know now. He has a way of telegraphing where it's headed...
Anne kept Henry in suspense. "I beseech you now with all my heart," he formally wrote her, "definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us ... necessity compels me to plague you for a reply." He was ready to be Anne's alone, "casting off all others." Though he could never forget that he was King, and usually wrote with royal restraint, sometimes, during separations, he wrote her as warmly as any other 16th Century swain, e.g., ". . . Wishing myself (especially of an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty duckies I trust...