Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What's biting these textbook writers, then? Communism. Whoever is touched with Communism loses his sense of truth as we know...
...FIRST, know the facts...
...make paint brushes from pig bristles. Soon the boy was wandering from town to town, painting portraits. He lugged along a saddle he had accepted in payment for one job, but he had no horse. Resting on his saddle, in the forest between settlements, he learned to know landscape, and his landscapes later made a hit. In five years he had a Manhattan studio and an invitation to help found the National Academy of Design. His fame, although it failed to outlast his own century, was already assured...
...question was how to stop them. Confessed L.I.U.'s famed Coach Clair Bee: "Why should I pay $100 for a scouting report when I know everything there is to be known about them. [They're] terrific." He sent his men into a zone defense, a desperation move...
...always had his eye on the auto industry because "it's a dramatic business, you know." After World War I, he joined Remy Electric Co., a General Motors subsidiary, as chief engineer and sales manager. In nine years he was a G.M. vice president; five years after that he became Bill Knudsen's right-hand man. In 1940, when F.D.R. tapped Knudsen to direct defense production, Vice President Wilson stepped easily into the great Dane's shoes. Since then he has had two big projects: 1) mobilize G.M. for war (tanks, planes, jet engines...