Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this fall letters were sent to college stations all over the country, stating that the FCC would like to know more about the possibility of small, unlicensed stations interfering with the reception of larger networks...
...suspect that for my luxury, some $10,000 are spent (a wild guess based on 30 rooms each with 30-odd chairs, at $10 a chair) at a time when even those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some inkling that affairs are not at their normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want...
...turning out the social science experts, men who are learning how to close the historic breach--but we don't know where to put them. In the teaching profession, there is standing room only, and a great University must turn to "negative guidance," forced to warn its college graduates that the demand for social science experts is limited...
...true that the man was in jail. But that wasn't the point at all. "And do you know why? For helping illiterates, that's why." After explaining what an illiterate is, the speaker went on. "For helping illiterates," the chairman emphasized. The audience, now in the spirit of things, was muttering, displeased over such an injustice. A little louder, the speaker explained that the poor victim of good government had only been enabling these illiterates to exercise their FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO VOTE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. He had registered for them. Thus there was no doubt left that good government...
...time that many people had ever heard of the newly-created "expert." If he had become Secretary of State then or in 1948 he would now have a right to claim the credit for forming our foreign policy, for it is the Secretary of State, as Mr. Dulles should know, who has this particular responsibility...